Agua de la nostalgia, agua de la conciencia: Memoria y metanoia en Patria de Fernando Aramburu
Water of nostalgia, water of conscience: Memory and metanoia in Patria by Fernando Aramburu

Summary/Abstract: Since ETA declared ceasefire in 2011, the strive to understand what had happened and to gradually build the collective memory has favoured the publication of several books about that painful period in the Basque Country. It was necessary to open a debate in order to compensate for the long years of fearful silence in the society and to assess the consequences of the conflict. As a result, the unequivocally warlike syntagm “battle of narratives” was meant to designate the absence of a single version of the events and the necessity to avoid the attempt at legitimizing the terror organization. In this context, we aim at analyzing the contribution of Patria, a novel by Fernando Aramburu, to the plural dialogue of the writings on this topic. We will focus on the role of memory in the process of metanoia, seen as a fundamental transformation of the mind.

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