An Audit of Rubble
the Archive as an Attempt to Restore a Biographical Truth in This Living Thing, by Maria Esther Maciel
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https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-2096.2025.57911Keywords:
archive, truth, biography, This Living Thing, Maria Esther MacielAbstract
This work aims to discuss the inventory carried out by the character, Ana Luiza, central in the Maria Esther Maciel’s novel, This Living Thing (2024), from the perspective of an opportunity to retake the archive as an artifact of memory, and the eventual undertaking of a biographical truth. Based on an analytical methodology, making use of memories summarized in the fictional context of Maciel’s work, Ana Luiza embarks on as exercise to reconstruct the turbulent relationship she experienced over the years with her late mother, this event is disclosed at the beginning of the narrative. In this article, the rubble audit is Ana Luiza’s essay, documented by Maciel, in the opportunity to understand the intricacies of the bond between herself and her mother, Matilde, and the consequent impossibility of materializing the aforementioned biographical truth. Wich results in a scenario full of biographical (and autobiographical) rubble.
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