Narrar para compreender : violência e memória na obra de Alonso Cueto.

Abstract

In this dissertation we propose a reflection on how contemporary subjects, in situations of armed conflict or post-conflict, are constituted and how they make meaningof the past when narrating about themselves and about the other. In this perspective, we think the fiction, through its aesthetic proposal, as an opportunity to discuss the relationship between the subjects and the memories of violence. In order to achieve the proposed objectives, we studied the Peruvian narratives Grandes miradas (2003) and La hora azul (2005) by Alonso Cueto. The narratives show a set of representations which helps to activate multiple meanings about the restlessness of the being in a context where terror presents itself in different faces or is buried in the culture and in the institutions of the State. To support our analysis, we consideredthe theoretical principals of scholars such as Paul Ricoeur, Elizabeth Jelin, Victor Vich, Carlos Iván Degregori, among other studies, whichconsider the memory of the narrative about violence a process opento the reinterpretation of the past. Before the observation of the selected works, we also conducted a necessary contextualization of the political and social panorama of the years of armed conflict in Peru, and the later period called“apaziguamento armado” of Fujimorism. From a myriad of interpretive possibilities related to the hermeneutic method, the works can be read as an aesthetic representation of the Peruvian memory about violence, participating, through the symbolic, in the attempt to break unilateral truths and resignify the past events.