A memória como estratégia narrativa em Crônica de uma morte anunciada.

Abstract

This thesis discusses the ways as the narrator of Crônicas de uma morte anunciada, by Gabriel García Márquez uses of memory as a narrative strategy. It is proposed, therefore, a reflection about how the memories can compose many different narratives, even though it is a previously known outcome as it is the case of Crônicas de uma morte anunciada. It is understood that the studies about memory and narrative, which back to the ancient Greeks, have been a concern that has accompanied the humanity for centuries, especially because of the inherent relation between remembering and narrating, insofar as it is only narrated what has already happened. Besides that, Gabriel García Márquez, who is one of the most recognized Latin American authors, being a writer and journalist and also the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, particularly appreciates the subject “memory”.From the methodological point of view, in order to observe memory as a narrative strategy, the research has analyzed Gabriel García Márquez’s works, especially organizing the romance Crônicas de uma morte anunciada in categories related to the forms of memory, investigating in particular how they were strategically used for the narrative’s construction. During the analysis, we have realized, apart from the strategy of memory, the theme of joint responsibility of all the village’s residents in relation to the announced death of the main character Santiago Nasar.