La memoria y el proceso de reconstrucción personal en dos novelas colombianas.

Abstract

This article seeks to give an account of the research done on memory in two Colombian novels, from the reading and writing process. The novels Flores blancas para papá, by Beatriz Helena Robledo (2012), and El gato y la madeja perdida, by Francisco Montaña (2013), are the starting point for understanding the link between memory and identity. To do this, and in order to reflect on the relationship between the construction of memories and literacy, similar parts of each story are told, in which the protagonists are two girls who have suffered the struggles of war; one turns to her memories following the loss of her father, and the other one turns to memories to understand her new context with regard to her father. The paper also gives an overview of the phenomena that the protagonists go through, to support the importance of children’s reading in a country that has lived through the war.