The novel as a source for the analysis of time and memory in ten History of Daily life: A reflection on the El olvido que seremos by Héctor Abad Faciolince

Abstract

This text has an objective; to offer a reflection on the scope of the novel as a historical source for the History of Daily Life. Although the debate on this topic has occupied both historians and litterateur, my interest consists in explaining that the analytical categories of "time" and "memory", present in biographical literature, are very similar to those that historians interpret from the historical testimonies. It is therefore matter of exposing to what extent Cultural History and historians can take advantage of those sources
that, like our academic texts, narrate a history of historical events, such as the novel of Héctor Abad Faciolince.