“Narrar para não deixar morrer”: O tempo do fim em Biografia do Língua (2015), de Mário Lúcio Sousa

Abstract

This article proposes an analysis of the novel Biografia do Língua (2015), by the Cape Verdean writer Mário Lúcio Sousa, traced on a double axis. The first axis deals with reflecting the narrative strategy of a condemned to death who, when he narrates, suspends the time by modeling language and history. The second, outlining literary images mobilized by the narrative, designing the layout of a cultural imaginary that recovers the memory of the movements of Portuguese colonialism.

Keywords

• mário lúcio sousa
• suspension of time
• colonialism
• cultural imaginary
• cape verde