Memória, sociedade e simbolismo imaginário nos contos de Arriete Vilela e Berta Lucía Estrada Estrada

Abstract

The study here presented, based on the definitions of a few critics, such as Maurice Halbwachs, Ecléa Bosi, Henri Bergon, Luiza Lobo, Elaine Showalter, Roberto Reis, Cassirer, Durand, Bachelard, amongst others, aims, through readings of the selected corpus, at identifying some features of the literary discourse constructed in the narratives of Arriete Vilela (2011) and Berta Lucía Estrada Estrada (2008). The works chosen to be part of the corpus of this research are Féminas o el dulce aroma de las feromonas (2008) andVoces del silencio (2008), by Estrada Estrada, and Contos Reunidos (2011), which is a collection of the books Grande baú, a infância (2003), Maria Flor etc (2002), Tardios afetos (1999) and Farpa (1988), by Vilela. We have the objective of making a comparison among the short stories written by the two female authors from subjects that deal with memory, representation of women in society and literary interpretation through symbolic activity. Some considerations were made from the reading of these short stories, especially concerning the fact that history, memory and literature are related. The returning to the past, experienced by most of the characters inscribed in these narratives, is only possible through the manipulation of the language, what is evident in the life stories told by Vilela and Estrada Estrada. We also notice that a remembrance brought to a character s memory can be remembered or excluded, since the characters have different perceptions of the moment in which a fact occurs. Another possible observation given by the reading of the narratives is the one that the fictional and the historical discourses dialog between themselves by representing, interpreting and understanding the world through recollections and through language, because both discourses produce meaning and constitute a way of seeing the world, by making the past intelligible. In the case of the fact that the literary discourse is filled with representative elements, we observe that the literary texts here discussed accomplish the representation of women and their role in society. It should be noted that it was possible to understand how the imaginary reconstructs, changes or idealize the real. Therefore, we understood that the social life is impossible outside a symbolic net