| Titre | Duelos y memorias en Austral de Carlos Fonseca: hacerle justicia a lo fragmentario | |
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| Auteur | Émilie Boyer | |
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Revue | Amerika |
| Numéro | no 31, 2026 Deuil et mémoire en Amérique latine | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Dossier: Deuil et mémoire en Amérique Latine: Émergences sociales, élaborations narratives et artistiques Travail de deuil |
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| Résumé anglais |
The novel describes the travels of Julio Gamboa, chosen to decide the fate of the last writings of his friend Aliza Abravanel. To understand the project behind the last words of Aliza, who suffered from aphasia at the end of her life, Julio will experience a return to the depths of his memory. The experience of grief–both individual and collective–is then revealed in a journey through the arid or jungle deserts of Latin America, comings and goings that question the transnational nature of identities and histories. Three indigenous characters play key roles: Sarapura helps Aliza overcome the obstacles of aphasia as she writes–based on her father's diaries–about the story of Juvenal Suárez, the last speaker of the Nataibo language, and the novel ends with Juan Paz de Raymundo, a Quiché man who built a theater of memory in Guatemala after the armed conflict, because he felt that the work of forensic scientists expressed “demasiada ciencia, poca emoción”. We will then show how the figure of the indigenous, victim of repeated dispossession, nourishes a global reflection on ways of reconstructing memory from the experience of loss (of language), emptiness, or secrecy. Source : Éditeur (via OpenEdition Journals) |
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| Article en ligne | https://journals.openedition.org/amerika/22587 |
