Memory and representation in Sonhadora, by Adriana Lunardi.
Keywords: Character; Adriana Lunardi; Memory; Representation; Narrative.
The aim of this paper is to investigate the concept of memory from the individual and collective perspectives in Adriana Lunardi's "Sonhadora" (2002), in order to observe how the silenced female voice in the plot contributes to the reconstruction of a social memory. Through the protagonist, Júlia, we try to understand how her memories and those of other characters are present in the narrative, representing the values and mentalities of various profiles of society. In order to problematize how the text transfigures the context of the social strata present in the story, theoretical assumptions from Werner (1994), Aristotle (2008), Lukács (2009) and Candido (2014) were used to record a historical overview of the configuration of heroes and characters over time. With regard to memory, the ideas of Weinrich (2001) on remembering and forgetting were considered; Bergson (1999) and his perspective on individual memory; and, with regard to memory as a collective manifestation, the postulates of Halbwachs (1990) and Bosi (1979; 2003) were followed. Preliminary analyses of this bibliographical research with a qualitative approach allow us to infer that the perception of an individual memory identified in the characters contributes to outlining a collective memory of Brazilian society in the 19th century.