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Place, Silence, and Local Memory in Todo e� silencio by Manuel Rivas

Author(s) -

Neil D. Anderson

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

abriu

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101

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eISSN - 2014-8534

pISSN - 2014-8526

DOI - 10.1344/abriu2015.4.1

Subject(s) - silence , forgetting , point (geometry) , art , art history , visual arts , psychology , aesthetics , cognitive psychology , mathematics , geometry

This article addresses issues of local memory in Manuel Rivas’s novel Todo é silencio (2010) and takes as its starting point Pierre Nora’s twin notions of lieu de mémoire and milieu de mémoire. By focusing on a specific site portrayed in the novel —the escola de indianos, a building that once housed a progressive school— we analyze the ways in which the author deploys the building not merely as a setting, but also as aestheticization of the interstices between history, memory, and forgetting.