Memorias y olvidos en torno a la historia de México: la Re volución en la novela Los recuerdos del porvenir (Elena Garro, 1963) y su adaptación cinematográfica (Arturo Ripstein, 1968)
Memories and Oblivion of the History of Mexico: the Revolution in the Novel Los recuerdos del porvenir (Elena Garro, 1963) and Its Film Adaptation (Arturo Ripstein, 1968)

Summary/Abstract: This paper proposes an approximation to the role that memory and oblivion play in the construction of historical discourses. For this, we take as a basis Mexican Revolution’s representation in the novel Los recuerdos del porvenir (Elena Garro, 1963) and its film adaptation, directed by Arturo Ripstein in 1968. In these works we find two different visions about the first decades of the twentieth century in Mexico: the literary one, critic with the revolutionary rhetoric developed by the authorities; and the filmic one, close to this. Which is intimately related with the unequal use that novel and film made of the memory, striving respectively to remember or remove different historical episodes and personalities. With our analysis we want to deepen the knowledge of these works, relating them to the different currents of thought that have reflected on the history of Mexico and placing them appropriately in the complex Mexican political, social and cultural context of the 1960s.

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