Open AccessPlace, 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
0eISSN - 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.