Literatura, memória e paisagem: o pampa em Vitor Ramil, Juan José Saer e Saúl Ibargoyen.

Abstract

This study concerns an analysis of which elements within literary narratives refer to the collective memory of Pampa cultural landscape. Empirical data were collected after the selection of two fictional works and an essay by each of the three authors, belonging to one of the countries that cover the Pampa region: Pequod, Satolep and A Estética do Frio, by Vitor Ramil, Brazilian (from Rio Grande do Sul); Toda la tierra, Volver... volver and Las fronteras y el mundo, by Saúl Ibargoyen Islas, Uruguayan; El entenado, La ocasión and El río sin orillas, by Juan José Saer, Argentine. Based on the works, it was sought to relate authors' cultural landscape description to the idea that such perception directs us to a literary work, in the sense of creating an image map assembled from reading, at the same time as fiction reading interferes in cultural landscape perception. According to different researchers, as Jöel Candau, Maurice Halbwachs, Henri Bergson, Pierre Nora, Octave Debary, Daniel Fabre, Walter Benjamin, Birgit Neumann, and others, and based on different theorists who discuss issues related to individual memory, collective memory, relation between memory and literature and landscape, a comparative study was made among the works focusing on objects / elements that refer us to a landscape representation of Pampa.