Abstract
In o Sol se põe em São Paulo, Carvalho’s writing promotes an exercise of alterity, enabling contact with the other and self-awareness. The narrator, who has been given the task of narrating a story that does not belong to him, starts to reflect on his own past and identity. Through the narrative exercise, his linguistic and cultural fracture expands, since he perceives in himself the lack of identification with the cultural repertoire that is part of his origins. From this space, from where he reports the origin of the other, his awareness of not belonging is reinforced, which intensifies his existential anguish. The breakdown of the bond with his origins leads to instability, fragmentation, hybridization, a game between being and seeming to be chosen as constituent elements of his identity. Therefore, the narrator realizes that his identity representation, as well as that of so many others, takes place through the narrative of the individual in transit, of the moving being, of the identity under construction.
Keywords:
Alterity; identity; memory; narrator