Literature as informational resources and testimonial traces

Starting from the premise that the literary text can be treated as a document, the present article aims to analyze under what conditions certain fictional and poetic works are able to mobilize and reveal, at the heart of their writing, a set of informational resources and testimonial traces. In view of this,this is a theoretical study of a bibliographic naturebased on a literature review in an interdisciplinary area that, supported by the concepts of trace and resource, investigates how literature can be constituted as an "archive" that organizes, preserves and perpetuates the historical memory of an era. The results demonstrated that literary writing is capable of managing in itself numerous informational resources and testimonial traces with the potential to offer readers a better delineated image, both about the life story of a writer and the cultural and political contingencies that guided the individual and collective actions, as well as the events of a certain socio-historical reality.