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DIAZ G. VIANA, Luis. Los caminos de la memoria: oralidad y textualidad en la construcción social del tiempo. Acta poét [online]. 2005, vol.26, n.1-2, pp.181-217. ISSN 2448-735X.

Why has the recovery of collective memory, no matter how painful, become such an important issue in some countries for the last few years? Is memory turning into an accessory, or a substitute, for the lesser known history? It would seem that oral narratives, with which this exercise of re-connecting with the past has been implicitly related, acquire in the current context a sort of renovated or renewing reliability with respect to the written texts. In this essay the author relates both orality and the written texts with the different ways of remembering and with the distinction between memory and recollection already made by Greek philosophers. From this perspective, oral literature -nowadays less "pure" than ever, since the new forms of technological communication blend the oral and the written- emerges with unprecedented strength and with special relevance in the social reconstruction of time. Perhaps we search in orality's transhistorical memory a continuity of experience we thought we had lost.