Visões privadas e imperfeitas: (re)estruturar a história

• Marinho, Maria de Fátima ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidade Do Porto

     Universidade Do Porto

     Santo Ildefonso, Portugal

     
• Localización: Constelaciones familiares en la narrativa iberoamericana moderna / coord. por Ángela Calderón Villarino, Jobst Welge, 2024, ISBN 978-88-6969-833-0, págs. 83-92
• Idioma: portugués
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  • This short essay intends to study some novels that recreate the past, shiftingthe omniscient focus to a private sphere that substantially modifies the official knowledge of events and transforms them into something dependent on a partial and unfocused look. It is always translucent mirrors that reflect reality, mirrors that return imagestransfigured by private (familiar) focusing. In the two novels by Dulce Maria Cardoso thatwe set out to analyse, we come across this obliquity, which translates the existence ofweird masks, since they do not completely hide the face, but allow a glimpse of smallgaps that reveal it to us. O Retorno, published in 2011, is an exemplary account of ateenager whose family is obliged to leave Angola shortly before independence. A similarphenomenon takes place in the novel Eliete (2018), where a female narrator, married, withtwo teenage daughters, recalls past and present times, in a constant overlap forcing thenarrator to tie up loose ends, to create universes that are mutually involved.