| Titre | Recordar sin recordar | |
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| Auteur | Stefano Brugnolo, Laura Luche | |
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Revue | Amerika |
| Numéro | No 3, 2010 La Mémoire et ses représentations esthétiques en Amérique latine /2 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Mémoire et urgences textuelles |
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| Résumé anglais |
Often it is the victims who remember the violence they have suffered at the hands of brutal powers. Bolaño, on the contrary, explores the memory of the semi-guilty, the memory of someone belonging to what Primo Levi called, “ The Gray Area ”. Such a person is Sebastián Urrutia Lacroix, who, in a long monologue, reminisces about the years of dictatorship and his complicit acceptance of the regime. The essay sets out to show how the protagonist achieves a series of displacements, digressions, superfluous position-honing, euphemistic descriptions, so as to postpone confrontation with the more-difficult-to-face memories of the dictatorship. These strategies of confrontation/non-confrontation with the past is telling of the difficulty for many Latin-Americans to admit that they have been complicit in the dictatorship in different ways. The multiple figures of displacements are at the foundation of the comic nature of the text, which highlights the tragically ridiculous aspects of many other denial discourses of other discourse in search of an impossible self-absolution. Source : Éditeur (via OpenEdition Journals) |
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| Article en ligne | http://amerika.revues.org/1479 |
