Quando a ficção se recorda, quando o sentido passa a resistir

From three narratives of the contemporary brazilian literature, this essay investigate how the memorialistic fiction diversifies itself according to the level and the kind of narratological fragmentation: Relato de um certo oriente by Milton Hatoum operates with the reverberations of the cultural diffraction; Resumo de Ana by Modesto Carone with the divergences of the counterpoint; O motor da luz by José Almino with some exploded and polyphonic subjectivity. In the same way, the use of the literary reference discriminates in these three works three positions relating to the concept of literature.

Memorialism; narratology; intertextuality; literature