GRACILIANO RAMOS AND THE FORGIVENESS OF FORGIVENESS

This essay seeks to read Infancia (Childhood), an autobiography by Graciliano Ramos, as a space to reflect on the paradoxical experience of forgiveness. Taking as basis the theoretical elaboration on the same theme by Jacques Derrida, the analysis will privilege the passages in which Graciliano Ramos at the same time remembers and disentangles the violence that victimized him, as he seeks to consider them from other ethical presuppositions.