Abstract:
The novel The girl in the photograph, by the Brazilian writer Lygia Fagundes Telles, published in 1973, presents an elaborate formal work by orchestrating a game of focalization and voice, as well as themes that, in the literary fabric, signify reality: historical experience, female experience in the face of a turbulent political period, and constant crossings of the past into the present. From this perspective, we aim to investigate, in this novel, History as the raw material of character figuration. That is to say, we seek to analyze how the historical-political context is a vector of meaning-making through which the fictionalization of figures is accomplished. To do so, we first look at the relationship between literary narrative and History, based on Paul Ricoeur (2010), and then present the literary appreciation.
Keywords:
Lygia Fagundes Telles; The girl in the photograph; Literature and History; character.