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The Archive and its Remains (of the Real): Writer’s Diary and Poetics of Memory in En libertad by Silviano Santiago and the Trilogía luminosa by Mario Levrero

Literatura: Teoria, Historia, Critica, ISSN: 2256-5450, Vol: 25, Issue: 1, Page: 245-269
2023
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In this article we propose to investigate the ways in which the poetics of memory are articulated in En libertad by Silviano Santiago and in the Trilogía luminosa by Mario Levrero. We maintain that the selected works assume the protocols of the writer’s diary as remnants of the real to account for different metaphors of the archive in the key of a “war story”. Santiago writes the fictional continuation of the prison memoirs of Graciliano Ramos to compose a palimpsest of stories of violence that exposes the authoritarian framework of Brazilian history and works, in a performative way, as a denunciation of the last military dictatorship. Meanwhile, Levrero’s autofiction is configured as a staging of defeat: after an exile devoid of heroism, his diary-stories exhibit the failure of the search for a lost way of writing and the (im)possibility of all (re)constructive activity.

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