Essay On The Construction Of Memory

Memory, as we understand it, is an exclusively human characteristic and of fundamental importance to our species. It is in the act of remembering that we build ourselves, not only when we remembering something but also in the way that we do it. Thus, it can be said that remembering is not restricted to an act alone, but any thing that we remember is attributed some symbolic value, which, added to the other life experiences of the person, to his ideology and the collective community's memory in which it is inserted, creates something that goes beyond simply remembering. Memory is at the same time an act of remembering a specific data, like a telephone number, but at the same time, it is a construction created from the idiosyncrasy of those who remember, added to the external influences of their environment. About the interaction between subject and ambient in the construction of memory we

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Thus, when we think of the field of literary art, this characteristic of memory opens up a wide range of possible interpretations of the act of remembering found in fictional texts. It is for this reason that the object of study of this TCC is a study on three books of the literary production written by Lourenço Mutarelli, an author who not only builds much of his work based on the remembering act of his characters, but also makes use of the memory in a quite peculiar way. In Mutarelli's books we can find memory being more than a simple memory of the past, in his work the act of remembering is often one of the central elements of his