O narrador de memórias e a (des)construção do passado histórico em “A fantástica vida breve de Oscar Wao”, de Junot Díaz, e “Mês de cães danados”, de Moacyr Scliar

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss about the speeches of the memory, that are constituted in the interdiscourses between literature and history, from a reading of the fictional books The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz, and Mês de cães danados – Uma aventura nos tempos da Legalidade (1961) – (1977), by Moacyr Scliar, that have historical events and characters who live in this context as basis. From this reading, considered the relevant theoretical as reference, it is intended discuss about the ways of the memory, that cross-link whit the literary speech. For this, we realize a dialogue with some theoretical that discuss about these issues, mainly, in the postmodern context. Using, manly, concepts of historiographical metafiction, collective memory and ex-centric, this dissertation intends to evidence in this narratives, a literature that stand out as long as (de)construct the historical moments in a critical and reflexive form.