O cronotopo em As pequenas memórias

Abstract

José Saramago is a contemporary writer who works on social criticism of the capitalist world with a dense and complex look at human existential issues and unsettles the reader for the problems of the world, even if the reference for this is his most intimate being. Our focus is on Small Memories (2006), a novel considered factual about the childhood and adolescence of the 1998 Nobel Prize winner. For this, we will rely on the theoretical support of Bahktin (2018); and Genette (2017). We also have the own words of José Saramago, writer and character of his novel. Based on the theoretical basis, we propose an analysis and reflection on how time and space appear within the literary language of the Portuguese writer, especially in this context in which the factual and fictional amalgam occurs, characteristics of a more contemporary literature. In the end, we hope, in addition to contributing to the critical fortune of the writer, who if alive would have turned 100 in November 2022, raise questions about contemporary literary language.