Testimony of an inventory
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https://doi.org/10.35520/mulemba.2019.v11n20a23352Keywords:
Honwana, Mozambican literature, fiction, literary testimony.Abstract
In “Inventário de imóveis e jacentes”, tale that belongs to the collection of short stories Nós matámos o Cão-Tinhoso (1964), the only book of Luís Bernardo Honwana, an insomniac child narrator decides to inventory family assets. But this inventory exposes itself to the attentive reader as an exercise of invention of reality and of self by the child that mixes reality and fiction, or rather, moves the categories of real, fictitious and imaginary, as proposed by Wolfgang Iser. The game also serves as a reflection on literary testimony when this concept designates something that occurs in the very fabric of writing, in the artistic form assumed by words.
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