The memories in Caetés, São Bernardo and Angústia
Memory. Traces. Narrator character. Graciliano Ramos.
This research aims to investigate the narrative characters of the novels Caetés, São Bernardo and Angústia, by Graciliano Ramos, considering the process of recollection of narratives and how the protagonists of these works make use of memory. Our analysis is based on the theoretical formulations about memory as a search for memory (RICŒUR, 2007) in front of our reference groups that constitute the collective memory (HALBWACHS, 1990) which indicates their work (BOSI, 1994) and the uses that we can do by reconstructing memories (TODOROV, 2000). The narrator is conceived as the one who looks at his past and, by means of this, is configured as one who is in his / her present, evidencing the traces (BENJAMIN, 2006, 2012a, 2012b; GAGNEBIN, 2009; GINZBURG, 2012; JANZ, 2012; RICŒUR, 2007) that make it possible to reconstruct previous images. In view of this, the studies that have been undertaken show that all these narrators look in a singular way for their past and show traces left by failed relationships and that makes it possible to reconstruct the memories so that we understand who they are in today's narrative economy of the text.