Quando a memória “dispara”: uma leitura de Órfãos do Eldorado, de Milton Hatoum

Abstract

This work presents a reading of Milton Hatoum’s Orphans of Eldorado (2008) from the perspective of the memory. The analysis was on how the memory processes that are developed in the referenced book allow comprehending the literature. The study is guided in three moves: the proposal of a reading image focused on the narrative's specificity through the protagonist's/narrator’s memories; the history of such figure in Machado de Assis’ Dom Casmurro (1899), Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1908-1922), João Guimarães Rosa’s “Third bank of the river” (1962), Marília Garcia’s “tem país na paisagem?” (2017), and other Milton Hatoum books; and, at last, how to interpret the literature from this image, relating with Susan Buck-Moss and Walter Benjamin works. This trajectory is inspired in readings from João Cezar de Castro Rocha and George Didi-Hubermann, contemporaneous critics that used the reader's individual-sense experiences along with the literary text or work of art as starting points.