Abstract
http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2017v70n1p113Este estudo analisa a maneira pela qual a interdependência da representação e percepção da realidade é exemplificada e questionada em O Fantasma de Anil, de Michael Ondaatje (2000). Neste trabalho de literatura de resistência, através de um narrador onisciente, entramos não apenas nos espaços geográficos e na história cultural do Sri Lanka, mas nos encontramos participando da luta diária do povo para sobreviver, identificar e buscar justiça para os muitos mortos neste conflito entre grupos étnicos e o governo. Esta fragmentação da estrutura narrativa - lançando dúvidas sobre as relações conflituosas estabelecidas entre o presente e o passado dos personagens, entre valores ocidentais e orientais em relação ao conceito de verdade, a busca de identidade e amor perdidos - destaca ainda o intercâmbio entre representações e percepções da realidade.
Highlights
His study analyses the way in which the interdependence of the representation and perception of reality is exempliied and questioned in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost (2000)
His novel, set in Sri Lanka during the civil war in the 1980s and 1990s, narrates the trajectory of Anil Tissera, a forensic scientist employed by the Centre for Human Rights who returns to her home country2 to investigate the origin of organized operations for the killing of the population
We ind ourselves relecting with them about issues which worry them and which transcend the frontiers of the textual universe in which they are inserted.7 he permutability and interdependence of the representation and perception of the real Near the end of the novel Anil recalls parts of a conversation between Sarath and Gamini, when the three of them were on Galle Face Green, about the war in Sri Lanka, what they had done and what they did not intend to do: At one point that night, she remembered, they spoke of how much they loved their country
Summary
His study analyses the way in which the interdependence of the representation and perception of reality is exempliied and questioned in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost (2000).
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