As cinzas da cidade: cenas e vivências manauaras na ficção de Milton Hatoum

Abstract

In this work we made a theoric-critical investigation about the Milton Hatoum´s fiction (1952 - ), considering the showing of urban spaces in his novels. The city, in the amazonense´s novels, start from this straight relationship with memory and identity of people that are participant of the narration´s construction and consequently of the representation of the city. This representation it made by the sight and the experiences from of each narrators that read the city and spread it in language. We elect for compound this work the novels Relato de um Certo Oriente (1989), Dois Irmãos (2000), and Cinzas do Norte (2005), deleting the novel Órfãos do Eldorado (2008) and the tales A cidade Ilhada (2010), because that three books are enough for answering well to our goal, and that in Milton Hatoum´s other books are consolidated the representation´s form of this urban spaces. Using this situations we it is going appreciate and discussed the main questions relational to the city, bringing many referential studies about this thematic, articulating them in a free tour by theories, directing this discussions to the Hatoum´s work.