Title: Entre o lembrar e o esquecer: a corrosão de relações afetivas em narrativas e poemas latino-americanos contemporâneos
Abstract: In this thesis, I analyze how the writings of narrators and poetic subjects of five contemporary Latin American literary texts are affected by the erosion of their relationships with Alzheimer's sick characters.In the first chapter, I analyze the impacts suffered by the narrator of Desarticulaciones (2010) by Sylvia Molloy and the poetic subjects of El eco de mi madre by Tamara Kamenszain and the long poem "H" -the last one from Monodrama (2009) by Carlito Azevedo -for not being recognized by their sick loved ones.When mutual recognition ends or is threatened, the narrator and the poetic subjects carry on their relationships forward by asserting themselves as familiar to those who no longer recognize them through their writings.In the second chapter, I argue that the writings that the narrators-protagonists of Diário da queda (2011) by Michel Laub and Mar azul (2012) by Paloma Vidal inherited are deeply marked by what was not transmitted to them because their family members did not write about the Shoah in the Second World War (1939War ( -1945)), in the case of Diário da queda , nor about the coup that overthrew President Juan Domingo Perón in Argentina in 1955, in the case of Mar Azul , although their ancestors were quite involved in those historical events.I conclude that, faced with memory loss of their loved ones and the impossibility of mutual recognition, the narrators and poetic subjects take responsibility by writing for the survival of the corrosive relationships and, therefore, for the maintenance of their existences and those of their sick loved ones in these unstable bonds.