Márcio Souza and judaism: a question of ethnical terminology in brazilian literature

Abstract

The proposal of theoretical debate implies a confrontation through the concept of memorial patchwork. The idea of palimpsest re-readings establishes an essayistic challenge to rummage the invisible footprints of its Judaic origin. In this case, at the beginning of the quest for the relics of the past, writing launches into the abyss, submitting to the risk of creating sensations and images able to merge present and past. The article retakes a Márcio Souza's essay, “A verdadeira nação de Rafael Bentes”, known as an Amazonian author, where under the focus of his rendezvous in the Sephardic Judaism, attempts to evoke conditions for a pathway, not only to describe it properly, but to provide a testimony of reestablishment under the benjaminian orientation, that shed light to the dynamics of creation from sensible to its historical and memorial discourse.