LITERATURE, HISTORY AND MEMORY IN ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE: THE CONSTRUCTION OF LATIN AMERICAN IDENTITY IN THE LIGHT OF NEO-BARROQUE THEORY
Cem anos de solidão; Baroque; Neo-Baroque; Latin American identity; memory.
Cem anos de solidão (1967), a masterpiece by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, is a narrative of love, solitude and memory. García Márquez undoubtedly occupies a prominent place among Latin American writers, since his work proposes multiple readings of the historical and cultural scenario of the continent. Based on this understanding, and using One Hundred Years of Solitude as the corpus to be analyzed, this thesis explores the labyrinths of Literature, History and Memory, demonstrating how the process of formation of Latin American cultural identity occurs, in the light of the theory of Neo-Baroque or Modern Baroque. Thus, One Hundred Years of Solitude can be considered key to understanding Latin American identity, since it is the result of the combination of the ancient world (tradition) with the modern. It is, therefore, the reconfiguration of the image of the Latin American continent, from a post-colonialist perspective, through literary text. In view of this, this thesis is divided into five sections. Section 1 corresponds to the Introduction of the work. In Section 2 we will address the concept of Baroque and Neo-Baroque and their respective discussions and notes. In Section 3 we will present elements that demonstrate, based on the reading of the novel, fundamental marks for the construction of Latin American identity. In the 4th Section we will discuss Magical Realism, Fantastic Realism and Marvelous Realism and how the latter is fundamental to the construction of the narrative. In the 5th and final Section, we will demonstrate how memory is an extremely relevant factor in the construction of the narrative, since the entire plot is told through the memories of the narrator and the characters. To guide us in the construction of this research, we will use, in the development of the proposed and developed questions, the scope linked to the theoretical support of Samuel Arriarán, José Lezama Lima, Severo Sarduy, Alejo Carpentier, Irlemar Chiampi, Afrânio Coutinho, Tzvetan Todorov, Paul Ricoeur, Le Goff, Ecléa Bosi among others.