Luis Landero, memoria histórica, autoficción y evidentia

Abstract

Algunas novelas y libros de ensayo de Luis Landero ponen de manifiesto que la memoria histórica, entendida en su sentido primigenio, se compone de la historia personal y colectiva y forma parte de la Tradición. En el caso del autor, estos conceptos adoptan vida literaria en gran parte de su obra, que él compone a partir de un importante sustrato autobiográfico. La recuperación de la memoria para Landero representa un regreso vital a su juventud, a sus orígenes extremeños, a la tradición rural y al relato oral. Puesto que Landero prefiere emocionar y sugerir antes que exponer y argumentar, el recurso a la clásica evidentia favorece la interpretación verosímil e, intencionalmente, realista de los elementos autoficticios de sus creaciones.

Some novels and essays by Luis Landero show that historical memory, understood in its original sense, is composed of personal and collective histories, and that these are part of the Tradition. In the case of the author, these concepts adopt literary life in much of his work, which he composes from an important autobiographical substrate. The recovery of memory for Landero represents a vital return to his youth, to his Extremadura origins, to the rural tradition and to the oral story. As Landero prefers to excite and suggest rather than expose and argue, the recourse to classical evidentia encourage the credible and, intentionally, realistic interpretation of the self-fictional elements of his creations.