A DREAM FULL OF HAUNT: literature and memory in My fathers' ghost is climbing in the rain, by Patricio Pron
Contemporary Literature. Memory. Image. Patricio Pron.
This work is a reading of the novel My fathers' ghost is climbing in the rain, by Patricio Pron, and aims to reflect upon the relationships between literature, history and memory, highlighting how the connections between literary language and the construction of memory in the novel – a distressing recollection of events that involves the narrator's family in a traumatic moment in Argentina, which was the military dictatorship – are expressed, crossing the disciplinary field of history (both official and unofficial), and giving utterance to the gaps and silences that permeate the novel's narrative as a way of problematizing the recovery of the past. To this end, the relationship between memory and the concept of image was explored from the theoretical framework of the philosopher and art historian, Georges Didi-Huberman, observing how the narrative is assembled in the work studied through the reconstructed past not only as fact, but also as a literary creation, through image.