Remembrance: the identity constitution of the subject in “Era aqui”, by Luiz Vilela

Abstract

According to the studies about memories and remembrances, we observe that every man is fruit of past events, and rescues that essence through the past revisitation by the memorialistic mechanism. In this sense, contemporary literary production has been generous in what concerns the possibility of analytical exploration of the identity configuration of being – character – through the past, identifying the present and characterizing the future. In front of the memorialistic composition, the individual is revealed by the spatial configurations, as we will see in the tale “Era aqui”, from the collection of tales Você Verá (2013), by Luiz Vilela. Thus, under the aegis of narratological studies, the tale’s theories under Piglia’s perspective (2004), and Bosi’s pleadings (1995) and Halbwachs (2006) about the memory, we propose an analysis looking for investigate the way that remembrance of self-past contributes to self-present formation and projects the self-future in the configuration of the main character of this tale.