Ecos de memória A escrita do como forma de denúncia em Estátua de sal de Maria Ondina Braga

Abstract

Maria Ondina Braga (1922-2003), a Portuguese itinerant and contemporary writer, frequently calls upon the themes of travel and otherness for her literary aesthetics. Alongside these thematic lines, the work under study, Estátua de Sal (1983), constitutes a novelized autobiography where Ondina Braga's biographical experience is fictionalized, literalized and, above all, self-analyzed. This article, focusing exclusively on the aforementioned work, intends the following: (i) to review aspects of literary theory by framing, on the one hand, specificities of the writing of the I in Maria Ondina Braga and, on the other hand, by generically presenting the work; (ii) then, two main objectives. The first is to problematize the architecture of memory, or to put it differently, the way memory is structured in the space of narration and shared with the reader; the second aspect is related to the achievement of a first analysis of the selected textual excerpts; in a third moment, the exercise explores the revisitation and the sharing of the inner world of the character in the light of a line of reading that understands writing as a space of denunciation and criticism of social and cultural vectors.