Abstract

PEREIRA RAULINO, Renata Cristina. Writing on the effects of memory loss in «H.», by Carlito Azevedo. Desde el Sur [online]. 2019, vol.11, n.2, pp.343-350. ISSN 2076-2674.  http://dx.doi.org/10.21142/DES-1102-2019-343-350.

In our own time, in which the exercise of memory is so fundamental, literary works have emerged which reflect upon the loss of memory, including the memory loss caused by Alzheimer’s disease. In this essay, we offer an analysis of the main literary devices employed by the Brazilian poet Carlito Azevedo in order to describe the effects of Alzheimer’s disease upon his mother, in the poem «H.», published in the collection Monodrama (2009). Here, the poet-son focuses particularly upon absence and, through his writing, he evokes the gaps in his mother’s memory.

Keywords : Memory; forgetting; Alzheimer’s disease; Carlito Azevedo; H.

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