Os resíduos e as sombras errantes: a alegria amarga de Natalia Ginzburg

Abstract

This piece tries to think the statutes that the absents and the remembrances have in the fiction’s narrative by the Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg. The propose is to draw a path by four novel’s endings – La strada che va in citta, Tutti i nostri ieri, Caro Michele and La citta e la casa – for read them with excerpts of Ginzburg’s essays, fragments of Espinosa related with the absence and the capacity of desire and Walter Benjamin’s concept of experience. The hypothesis of reading consists in the outline of a possible kind of joy in a world without sense, very different of an idyllic happiness because includes the ambivalence, and in the experience’s survival through the work with the memory.