Open AccessThe smell of time in Ana Margarida de Carvalho’s Não se pode morar nos olhos de um gato: an outline of the human condition
Author(s) -
Dora Nunes Gago
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
acta scientiarum. language and culture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.124
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1983-4683
pISSN - 1983-4675
DOI - 10.4025/actascilangcult.v43i1.55171
Subject(s) - narrative , human dimension , dimension (graph theory) , cohesion (chemistry) , psychology , cognitive psychology , art , physics , literature , mathematics , quantum mechanics , political science , pure mathematics , law , human rights
This article analyses the olfactory landscapes represented in the novel Não se pode morar nos olhos de um gato (You can’t live in a cat’s eyes) by Ana Margarida de Carvalho (2016) reflecting upon the way in which the various smells described ‘presentify’ the multiple memories of the characters, emphasising their human dimension in a confinement scenario predisposed to completely dehumanising them. Using the theoretical contributions of Drobnick (2006a, 2006b), Reinarz (2014) and Byung-Chul Han (2015) among others, we examine how the smellscapes contribute to the construction of the characters’ identitary memory giving the narrative temporal cohesion.