O quarto fechado, de Lya Luft: relações entre memória e espaço na tessitura narrativa

Abstract

Memory is constituted as an internal process whose projection does not take place in a void since memory needs space to be activated and stimulated. Therefore, concrete places of historical events, everyday actions and visual representations can serve as possible spatial references for memory, such as: photographs, maps, non-visual elements, literature and music. For that reason, we propose to analyze the relationship between memory and space in the interfaces with melancholy and death in O quarto fechado (1984) by Lya Luft. We also emphasize revenge with a vision focus on the character Ella. We also set out the following specific goals: to discuss the memorial process in the narrative based on the relationship between the characters; to understand the flow of memory, melancholy and the way they reflect on the characters in the narrative; to identify the relationship between memory and death represented in the novel; to address the symbolism of memorial spaces and their influence on the characters’ melancholic aspects. The questions that guided this study were: how is the main character represented from a memorialistic perspective? How does the flow of memory and melancholy reflect on the characters in the narrative? Taking into account its representation in the novel,What is the relationship between memory and death ? How does the symbolism of memorial spaces contribute to the understanding of the relationship between memory, death and melancholy? The narrative focuses on the character Renata who remembers the events of her life. She has a dysfunctional marriage, a declining music career, but all the characters are interconnected with conflicts they have experienced. The research has theoretical assumptions such as Joel Candau (2012), Ivan Izquierdo (2018), Maurice Halbawachs (2006), Paul Ricoeur (2007) and Beatriz Sarlo (2006). These are the support for understanding the memorialistic flow in the narrative. Regarding melancholy, the thoughts of Sigmund Freud (2012), Walter Benjamin (2013), Marcia Tiburi (2004), Jean Starobinski (2016) are relevant. On issues of death, we rely on the thoughts of Ariés (2000), Norbert Elias (2012) and Rodrigues (2006). Thinking about space, we count on the contributions of Bachelard (2008), Borges Filho (2007) and Tuan (2012). Although it is a fictional book, the novel under analysis can affect readers through all the ingredients that a great work of true fiction brings with it, for example: themes of human interest highlighted in their complexity, memory, mourning, melancholy and death. All of them are treated through the existence of paradoxical situations that are highlighted but without definitive solutions, thus broadening the readers' horizons.