Open AccessWhile milk remains in the memories of my heart
Author(s) -
Luciana Ferreira Tavares
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
vértices
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1809-2667
pISSN - 1415-2843
DOI - 10.5935/1809-2667.20150002
Subject(s) - narrative , alterity , consciousness , literature , novella , style (visual arts) , biography , element (criminal law) , philosophy , history , linguistics , epistemology , art , political science , law
The main purpose of this article is to show the importance of the affective memory rebuilt in the fictional narrative of Chico Buarque de Hollanda. Through the protagonist-narrator – Eulálio d’Assumpção –, from ‘Spilt Milk’, considerations are made about the speculate structure, a so present element in Buarque’s narrative style. By rescuing a double biography – Eulálio and Matilde – we show that the narrator expresses symptoms of resentment on his text pattern, and the traces left by the image of pain: a symbolic image. We emphasize that this literature piece implicitly designs on its plot a fundamental ontology of being: the wandering. That is why the scope of hermeneutic consciousness is used to receptively show the alterity of the text