Narrativa e história

Abstract

Portuguese:The text deals with the question of the specificity of historical narrative focusing on events that are forgotten. This is a problem faced by the Social Sciences and by History, when dealing with the construction of events as absences, that is, constructions that have disappeared, produced by silences, the unsaid and repression. These constructions are scenes that organize history.The possibility of their symbolization -the writing of history- also involves the possibility of imagination, in the sense that these constructions, besides disappearing, are also unknown. This implies the discussion of the relationship between the symbolic and the imaginary and between history and fiction.