FRAGMENTATION AND MEMORY

In Infância (2003), by Graciliano Ramos, memory appears as a mosaic form, which has forgetfulness as its creative force. The past can't be seen as a whole, but as fragments. Fragmentation is present at various levels of this work construction. The way of ordering the brief chapters, with considerable autonomy in relation to the whole, or the language, full of discontinuities, can be seen as examples of