Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea (Jan 2012)

Ficções da memória ou a memória da ficção: Dulce María Loynaz e Cecília Meireles

  • Aimeé G. Bolaños

Journal volume & issue
no. 40
pp. 81 – 98

Abstract

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Dulce María Loynaz e Cecília Meireles are read as poets that share, with their singular poetics, a memorialistic and reflexive aesthetics, in the condition of sym- bolist poets untimely. This article thinks about temporality, knowledge and gene- alogy, main memory’s functions, and examines Últimos días de una casa (1958) and Solombra (1963), poems-books on the problematic of the being in the temporality and the process of doing/undoing identity that occur, precisely, in the human time of memory. These poems of memorable fiction are studied in their different forms of composition and meanings when they pick up and preserve traces of of- fended, mutilated and deadly hurt memory in order to look at the pass and, also, to the future in a paradoxical poetics of a wasted and uninhabited memory.

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