Nas fronteiras da memória: Guimarães Rosa e Mia Couto, olhares que se cruzam / In the borders of the memory: Guimarães Rosa and Mia Couto, look cross

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

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This work makes a comparison among the workmanships of João Guimarães Rosa and Mia Couto, contemplating the similarities and differences between its aesthetic projects, having as conducting wire the verbal tradition. According to Walter Benjamin, all the great writers exhausted the verbal tradition and, Ángel Rama seems to corroborate with this, when he says that the writers of modernity appeal to this source to make their narratives. Rosa and Mia come back toward the past and their look cross when they recreate legends, myths, rites, beliefs, sayings and jests in the elaboration of their texts. It is certain that, the verbal tradition in his narratives does not represent the customs of the people as a whole, therefore, in the Guimarães Rosas workmanship it is portrayed as something that is vanishing and, even in Mia Coutos, that is part of the daily one, it is already fragmented. However, the biggest concerning is with the recreation process, this sends us to the history of the countries, once these authorsperspectives seem to converge in the same point: the "modernization" implanted in an abrupt way in those societies, relegating to one "third edge", great part of the population. Brazil and Mozambique are countries that have the Portuguese language in common, inherited from the settler, that was the same in both countries. However, they are carrying distinct cultures because , despite the similarity between the elements that makes them up , the values are different. The narratives of João Guimarães Rosa and Mia Couto do not represent the History, but they tell history. Of this form, narration, memory and History intercross themselves in such way, that the borders between fiction and reality become very tenuous.

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história; memória; narração history; memory; narration

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