Imagens da memória e seus efeitos em A lentidão, A identidade e a A ignorância, de Milan Kundera

Abstract

Over the last few years, memory has been explored by Milan Kundera in his Czech novels through his explicit relationships with the past and oblivion. With the beginning of its French cycle, from the 90s onwards, the author inaugurates a new understanding of memory in the narrative: it not only serves as a remission of the past as - this is the purpose of our study here - it also serves as an essential element for the construction and organization of narratives. With this, from the images for which the memory was evoked in the novels, The slowness (1995), The identity (1997) and The ignorance (2000), we identified and could carry out a study related to the corresponding narrative effects: memory as duration, memory as mirror and memory as repetition. For this, we first go through reflections on memory studies in the most diverse fields: philosophy, literature, psychoanalysis; from the theories of scholars like Aleida Assmann, Henry Bergson, Paul Ricoeur, Freud, among others, in order to obtain a more detailed understanding about the memory and its images. As a result of this understanding, we performed the textual analysis based on concepts related to the narrative and its analysis contained in the theories of Gérard Genette, Jonathan Culler and David Lodge, in order to visualize the effects of the memory of the narrative, used by Milan Kundera during the writing of his French cycle.