Lockdown Memories. Politics of Writing in the Narrative of Mauricio Rosencof

Authors

  • Claudia Gutiérrez Olivares Universidad de Chile

Abstract

The following text inquires about memory’s work and its writing in political captivity´s conditions. It is postulated that the testimonial account is the bearer of a writing politics, not only in terms of the denouncing logos that crosses it, but also by virtue of the game of memories that it opens. To this effect, we follow the narrative movement of the Uruguayan writer Mauricio Rosencof in order to examine the problematic of what I consider to be the overlap of memories in his experience of captivity, emphasizing in particular not only the political dimension of a captive writing, but also the poetic power of his testimonial writing deeply sad and beautiful at the same time.

Keywords:

memory, lockdown, writing, testimony