Quando Deus se esquece de nós: uma “antimemória” na solitária de Maura Lopes Cançado

Abstract

Maura Lopes Cançado's work was marked by the aspect of a work of denunciation that permeates her writing; More than that, Hospício é Deus: Diário I (1965) and O Sofredor do Ver (1968) trace the author's escape route. The following work seeks to analyze, with emphasis on his first work, how this escape takes place in a situation of confinement that goes beyond the limits of the asylum. It is with the experience of hospitalizations that Maura elaborates an “antimemory”, that is, a becoming against the regime of fixations operated by the characters that surround her story. Police figures are not only found inside the walls of the asylum, but are everywhere: in the family, at work, on the streets, etc. Against an exclusively “facetified” memory, the author will bring a diary full of other voices that start to compose, with her own, a unique panorama of life. There is then the elaboration of a time and a sense of its own, in an attempt to delineate a mapping of its marks; It is from this point that we will depart to analyze Maura's work.