Camargo, Katia Aily Franco deGaldino, Clara Glenda Mendes2024-12-032024-12-032024-07-31GALDINO, Clara Glenda Mendes. A queda do paraíso moderno: uma análise da memória e do espaço em Órfãos do Eldorado, de Milton Hatoum. Orientadora: Dra. Katia Aily Franco de Camargo. 2024. 124f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Estudos da Linguagem) - Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2024.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/60723This dissertation focuses on the contemporary novel Órfãos do Eldorado (2008) by Milton Hatoum. Set between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and located on the banks of the Amazon River, the story is narrated in a memorialistic and oralized manner by an elderly character – a son of the elite from the Rubber Boom – reflecting on his poor, peripheral present, with the apparent conflict being the disappearance of his beloved. Given these characteristics, the research aimed to investigate the construction of memory and space, with a view to understanding how the work internalizes society within its fictional universe – particularly concerning Brazilian and Amazonian modernization. To achieve this, the research specifically sought to identify the different memorialistic mobilizations present in the structure; to scrutinize the formal construction of memory and space in the narrative and their connections; and to examine how the relationship between these elements reflects social, economic, and political issues. The research drew on the integrative critique of Candido (2023a; 2023b) and Schwarz (2014; 1987; 1985), as well as the topoanalysis of Borges Filho (2007) to explore the literary space. The discussion on memory was based on Halbwachs (1990), Pollak (1989; 1992), Benjamin (1987), and Cascudo (2012). Historical and social phenomena were analyzed with the support of Souza (2023), Daou (2004), Schwarcz (2018; 2019), and Silva (2019). The investigation revealed that memory expresses fluctuations – which allow the perception of the contradictions and inequalities in the referenced social structure. It also became evident that the expressed collective memory is not homogeneous but dialectically tensioned by the Official, subterranean, and oral traditions, an aspect that breaks with dominant narratives about modernization and the Rubber Boom in the Amazon. The analysis of space, in turn, examined the decay present in the macrospaces of the field, the cities, and the myth itself when associated with modernization. Thus, the fall of the myth of modernizing progress becomes evident – whose materialization is inherently linked to contradiction, violence, and ruin.Acesso AbertoLiteratura brasileira contemporâneaMilton HatoumMemóriaEspaçoModernizaçãomasterThesisCNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA