THE BUILDING OF MEMORY IN AMULET, BY ROBERTO BOLAÑO
Memory, Literature, History, Bolaño.
This research has as its central theme the construction of memory based on the analysis of the work Amuleto (1999), by the Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003). Our goal is to identify how the construction of memory occurs in the narrator character Auxilio Lacouture, understood by us as the personification / image of literary and political memories. For the elaboration of this work, interlocutions were made with theorists who deal with the question of memory, history and the past, as well as authors who point out in the avant-garde movements probable paths to literature as we consider that these issues, in addition to permeating the analyzed work and directly related to the research theme, are necessary for a better understanding of the study proposed here. It was possible to verify that, in the work Amuleto, the delusional account of the narrator character Auxilio Lacouture reconstructs her past from the memories of facts she lived directly and indirectly. We also verified that the fictional texts are instruments that collaborate in the reconstruction of speeches other than the official ones and that the story can be retold and reconstructed through narratives such as the one analyzed in this work.