Purgatório, de Tomás Eloy Martínez: suspensão do tempo e construção de realidades

Anuschka Reichmann Lemos; Brunilda Reichmann

doi:10.5433/1678-2054.2016v32p82

Purgatório, by Tomás Eloy Martínez: suspension of time and construction of realities

Authors

Anuschka Reichmann Lemos Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0191-5731
Brunilda Reichmann Uniandrade https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4680-7462

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2016v32p82

Keywords:

Latin-American novel, Images, Photography

Abstract

This paper presents a reading of realities constructed by the narrator and the characters in scenes suspended in time in the novel Purgatory of Tomáz Eloy Martínez, leading us to diverse dynamics between images; to articulations among the visible, the imaginary and the imagined; to the overlap of memory and everyday life. From these experiences, we think of different propositions to exist between - between worlds, realities, countries and times; experienced by the characters from the dictatorship in Argentine in the 1970s to calm New Jersey of the 2000s. In a pungent way, Purgatory, by Dante, and cartography, mark the fiction by Martínez, presenting possible flows for the existence of lost or missing people. We will make use of theoretical contribution of photography (Boris Kossoy and Ronaldo Entler, among others), to propose a dip in symbolic possibilities of images in narratives as an extra challenge for our reading of literature as photography

Author Biographies

Anuschka Reichmann Lemos, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná

Master in Arts and Master in Communication and Languages by Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná. PhD in Communication Sciences from the Universidade de São Paulo. Adjunct professor at the Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná.

Brunilda Reichmann, Uniandrade

Master of Arts from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. PhD in Letters from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. Post-doctorate from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Professor of the Master in Literary Theory at Centro Universitário Campos de Andrade - Uniandrade.

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2017-08-07

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Lemos, Anuschka Reichmann, and Brunilda Reichmann. “Purgatório, by Tomás Eloy Martínez: Suspension of Time and Construction of Realities”. Terra Roxa E Outras Terras: Revista De Estudos Literários, vol. 32, Aug. 2017, pp. 82-94, doi:10.5433/1678-2054.2016v32p82.

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Vol. 32: Literatura enquanto fotografia (dez. 2016)

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