Correspondências exílicas cubanas: um diálogo fragmentado da memória em Informe contra mí mismo

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the correspondences and their inherent critical and emotional tension in the book Informe contra mimismo, by Eliseo Alberto. The discussion about their fragmented writing and the historical-political component of the letters is promoted. An interconnection was also traced with the implicit significance of the epistolary genre, its communicative legitimacy and self-writing that determine Alberto's intimate dialogue, which oscillates between the private and the public, the affective and the denunciatory, the symbolic and the nonspecific. The analysis uses a descriptive, qualitative method of bibliographic character based on essays, literary and cultural texts and recent Cuban epistolary collections. The concept of epistolary genre was based on the works of Arfuch (2010), Haroche-Bouzinac (2016), Díaz (2016) and Todorov (2003); the affect and narrative of the self is based on texts by Leone (2014), Klinger (2014) and Assmann (2011). And, finally, the exile, the fragmented and unspecific literature is supported by the works of Weimer (2008); Garramuño (2008, 2009, 2014, 2015); Ludmer (2007, 2013) and Rojas (2004), among others.