IMAGINARY STORY, REAL MEMORY

This work aims at analyzing comparatively the way how Antonio Lobo Antunes and Mia Couto represent the war in their chronicles and how the storytellers deal with the imagination in order to escape from the conflict The analysis focuses on the short stories "In the depths of suffering there is an open window", published in "Chronicles Book" by the Portuguese writer and "Fisher on departure, hero on arrival", published in the "Chonicling" by the Mozambican author. Approaching facts associated with the war, they also propose a new reading of the historic process, by inciting their readers to have a critical point of view of the depicted conflicts. Starting from de articulation between History and Fiction, the two authors explicit the supporting mechanisms of war and particularize the effects of the conflicts in human relations, by giving them divergent perspectives, more notably utopian and melancholic ones.