La casa grande or the eternal return of hatred and violence, a reading in key of memory

Abstract

This article attempts to get a reading of the novel La casa grande (1962) of the author Álvaro Cepeda Samudio, from some categories of the social memory. In order to achieve this, is searched the appearance of three types of memory in the body of the novel, which are an individual and autobiography memory, a historical memory related with the Banana massacre in 1928 and finally, with a mythical memory that underlie the national complex. The function of literature in the construction of sense about the past of the nation it is set on a discussion with the historic labor and is privileged its contribution as a cultural production.