Museum, novel, archive. Approach to paper museums

Abstract

In this work we intend to observe certain museum dimension among a good number of Latin American novels from the 20th century. The possibility of dialogue between literature and museum image motivates us to read these two “experiences” together that, in European tradition and the French one in particular, have had an especially interesting development from realism naturalism. To see the museum from the point of view of literature allows us, then, to play down the criteria of authority of those institutions that have been set up as republican organisations sustaining a nation project, such as the great institution of cultural task. It also allow us to comprehend the notion of archive as memory constructor which is, therefore, built with blocks of curatorship archives and assembled by story telling.