This thesis concerns the function of fiction in the creation of an historical myth and the uses that that myth is put to in a number of periods and differing régimes. Its case study is the popular myth of August the Strong (1670-1733), Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, as a man of extraordinary sexual prowess and the ruler over a magnificent, but frivolous, court in Dresden. It examines the origins of this myth in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, and its development up to the twenty-first century in German history writing, fiction, art, and media. The image August created for himself in the art, literature, and festivities of his court as an ideal ruler of extremely broad cultural and intellectual interests and high political ambitions and abilities linked him closely with eighteenth-century notions of galanterie. This narrowed the scope of his image later, especially as nineteenth-century historians selected fictional sources and interpreted them as historical sources to present August as an immoral political failure. Although nineteenth-century popular writers exhibited a more varied response to August’s historical role, the negative historiography continued to resonate in later history writing. Ironically, the myth of August the Strong represented an opportunity in the GDR in creating and fostering a sense of identity, first as a socialist state with historical and cultural links to the east, and then by examining Prusso-Saxon history as a uniquely (East) German issue. Finally, the thesis examines the practice of historical re-enactment as it is currently employed in a number of variations on German TV and in literature, and its impact on historical knowledge. The thesis concludes that, while narrative forms are necessary to history and fiction, and fiction is a necessary part of presenting history, inconsistent combinations of the two can undermine the projects of both.

La thèse se propose d’étudier différentes formes de la représentation du passé dans le roman contemporain français. Si la recherche a pu constater, depuis un certain temps déjà, un véritable « retour de l’Histoire » sur la scène littéraire actuelle, force est de constater que chez certains auteurs, ce « retour » s’accompagne d’une méfiance profonde à l’égard de la connaissance de l’Histoire et des formes (culturelles, littéraires) de sa mise en récit. Ainsi Philippe Forest, dans Le Siècle des nuages (2010), raconte-t-il l’histoire de son père tout en se posant la question de savoir comment on peut écrire cette histoire qui constamment se dérobe. Il en sort un roman historique paradoxal et foncièrement autoréférentiel qui se construit et se déconstruit sous les yeux du lecteur. De façon comparable, Jean Rouaud, dans L’Imitation du bonheur (2006), invite son lecteur dans « l’atelier » de l’écrivain afin d’exhiber les sources et les ressources de son travail. Il ne se sert ainsi des techniques de l’illusion réaliste que pour mieux les parodier par la suite. Dans Waltenberg (2005) d’Hédi Kaddour, en revanche, la critique du récit historique se fait à travers la fragmentation de l’intrigue, la multiplication des temps et des lieux ainsi que par l’abandon de la linéarité. Aussi l’auteur nous présente-t-il une histoire éclatée qui se soustrait aux catégories d’unité et de cohérence. Bien que les stratégies de représentation dans ces trois romans soient diverses, elles renvoient pourtant à un concept commun que je propose ici d’appeler le récit historique critique.Dans la partie principale de mon travail, il s’agit d’analyser les trois romans mentionnés ci-dessus en tenant compte, notamment, des outils méthodologiques élaborés par la narratologie (D. Cohn, A. Nünning, W. Wolf) et par la théorie de l’histoire (H. White, P. Ricœur, R. Kosel-leck). Cette partie principale est précédée d’une partie plus « théorique » subdivisée en trois axes de recherche : L’approche systématisante essaie de condenser certaines des caractéristiques les plus importantes du récit historique critique dans une vue d’ensemble, élargissant par ailleurs le propos sur d’autres textes littéraires (contemporains). L’approche historicisante se propose de tisser un lien entre les romans analysés dans la partie principale de la thèse et l’œuvre de Claude Simon, considérée ici comme une sorte de paradigme esthétique pour une nouvelle écriture de l’histoire. L’approche comparative, enfin, tourne le regard vers les historiens professionnels (Ginzburg, Jablonka, Boucheron) qui, à l’instar des romanciers, ont exploré, ces derniers temps, de nouvelles formes de mise en récit du passé. Si ces nouvelles formes se rapprochent du récit littéraire par l’usage qu’elles font de la fiction, elles restent néanmoins sceptiques sur la possibilité même de représenter le passé, devenant de la sorte comme un équivalent en histoire du récit historique critique littéraire. / This PhD thesis offers a study of different forms of representations of the past in the French contemporary novel. Since several years, literary critics agree that there has been something like a “return to history” on the actual literary scene. But we also have to state that some con-temporary authors combine this “return” with a profound suspicion against the knowing of history and the (cultural or literary) forms of telling it. In his Le Siècle des nuages (2010), Philippe Forest tells the story of his father while at the same time questioning himself about how to represent a story which seems to withdraw itself constantly. The result is somewhat paradoxical and may be described as a self-referential historical novel that constructs and deconstructs itself in front of the reader’s eyes. In a similar way, Jean Rouaud’s L’Imitation du bonheur (2006) invites its reader in the artist’s workshop in order to reveal the sources and the resources of the story. Exploiting the techniques of realistic illusion, Rouaud is in fact parodying them. Waltenberg (2005) by Hédi Kaddour acts differently: in this novel, historical narration is undermined by a broken storyline, by a pluralization of times and spaces and by the abandoning of the chronological order. Thus the author confronts us with a history “in pieces” that doesn’t obey the principles of unity and coherence anymore. Even if the strategies of historical representation are quite different in these three novels, they are all based on a common concept which I suggest to call “critical historical narration”.The main part of my work consists of the analysis of the three novels mentioned above, an analysis which is mostly based on methods provided by narratology (D. Cohn, A. Nünning, W. Wolf) or theory of history (H. White, P. Ricœur, R. Koselleck). This main part is preceded by a more general part that is subdivided into three theoretical approaches: the systematizing approach tries to reunite some of the most important features of critical historical narration in a synopsis and thereby takes also account of other (contemporary) literary texts. The historical approach connects the novels analysed in the main part of this thesis to the work of Claude Simon, which will be considered here as an esthetical paradigm for a new kind of historical narration. Finally, the comparative approach focuses on professional historians (Ginzburg, Ja-blonka, Boucheron) who have been exploring new strategies of historical writing in the same way that novelists have done. Indeed, if these new strategies converge with those in literary writing because of the use they make of fiction, they are nevertheless included in a more general reflection on the possibilities of representing the past. Historiography thus may provide something like an equivalent to critical historical narration in literature.

Le but de cette recherche qui de déplie en trois parties est de montrer comment l’Histoire en tant que champ cognitif peut, par l’intermédiaire de l’art romanesque, dévoiler des vérités profondes concernant la vie et la pensée contemporaine. Plus précisément, dans le cadre de la première partie, en traçant d’abord brièvement le portrait du roman historique classique, nous présentons sept romans européens de notre époque qui ont comme thématique commune des grands événements historiques. Nous expliquons de quelle époque traite chacun d’eux et quels lieux ils présentent comme lieux d’action de leurs histoires ; nous commentons alors la signification historique majeure du temps et de l’espace choisis. Par la suite, nous mettons l’accent sur les personnages romanesques de notre corpus dans le but de découvrir comment leur appartenance à une époque historique précise influence leur existence et comment surgit conséquemment le besoin de déchiffrer leur monde. De plus, nous nous intéressons à la relation éprouvée entre la puissance de la mémoire, qui hante les personnages se battant pour se réconcilier avec elle, et la construction de leur identité narrative, une identité tant individuelle que collective. Finalement, dans une dernière partie, nous tentons de faire le lien entre le temps de chaque roman et la structure narrative que son écrivain a choisie en suggérant qu’il joue un rôle considérable dans le processus de réception de la littérature. Cette dernière occupera ensuite notre réflexion : nous nous interrogerons donc sur les paramètres qui déterminent la façon dont l’écrivain et le lecteur perçoivent effectivement ces œuvres littéraires. / The purpose of this research, divided in three parts, is to show how History, as cognitive field, can reveal deep truths of contemporary life and thought through the art of novel. More precisely, in the first part, after briefly drawing the portrait of classic historical novel, we present seven modern novels that have as common ground important historical facts. We explain which time each novel deals with and which places it presents as sites of action of its story. We comment, as well, on the considerable historical meaning of the chosen times and places. Afterwards, we focus on the fictional characters of our corpus so as to discover how their belonging to a precise historical time influences their existence and how, consequently, the need to fathom out their world is provoked. Furthermore, we are interested in the proven relation between the power of memory that haunts the characters who are fighting so as to be reconciled with it and the construction of narrative identity, equally individual and collective. Finally, in the last part, we try to show the connection between the time of each novel and the narrative structure that each writer has chosen for it by suggesting the importance of its role in the process of the literary reception. The latter will subsequently make us wonder about the parameters that determine the way the writer and the reader receive effectively these literary works.

A perspectiva deste trabalho será a de que as diferentes experiências históricas de Henrique de Carvalho (Expedição Portugueza ao Muantiânvua: Ethnographia e história tradicional dos povos da Lunda- 1884-1888) (1890), Castro Soromenho (Lueji Ilunga na terra da amizade) (1945) e Pepetela (Lueji: o nascimento dum império) (1989) definem a forma literária, respectivamente, literatura de viagem, um conto tensionado e um romance. Três formas literárias distintas que mantêm o elo com o texto historiográfico, pois Castro Soromenho e Pepetela se apropriam do texto de Henrique de Carvalho para elaborarem seus enredos centrais que giram em torno do espaço Lunda. Tendo em vista que tal espaço potencializa as três narrativas, levaremos em conta que \"A forma não pode ser compreendida independentemente do conteúdo, mas ela não é tampouco independente da natureza do material e dos procedimentos que este condiciona. A forma depende, de um lado, do conteúdo e, do outro, das particularidades do material e da elaboração que este implica.\" (Bakhtin, M. 1992, p. 206) / In this work we aim to show that the different historical experiences by Henrique de Carvalho (Expedição Portugueza ao Muantiânvua: Ethnographia e história tradicional dos povos da Lunda - 1884-1888) (1890), Castro Soromenho (Lueji Ilunga na terra da amizade) (1945) and Pepetela (Lueji: o nascimento dum império) (1989) define certain literary forms, respectively, travel literature, tension short story and novel. These three distinct literary forms are connected with historiographic writings, for Castro Soromenho and Pepetela appropriate Henrique de Carvalho text to elaborate their central plots which focus the space of Lunda. Having in mind that space potentializes the three narratives, in this study we will take into consideration that \"The literary form cannot be understood separate from the content, and neither is it independent from the nature of the subject and the proceedings which are conditioned by this same content. Form depends on the content, and also on the particular aspects of the subject and on the elaboration it implies.\"* (Bakhtin, M. 1992, p.206)

<p>Ulla Isaksson (1916 – 2000) wrote many novels, often with a woman or several women as protagonists. In <em>Dit du icke vill</em> (“Where Thou Willst Not”) from 1956 she depicts a crisis of faith in a woman, which would not have been successful had she chosen a contemporary setting. She uses an adequate historical framework, the prosecution of witches in Sweden in the 17^th century, well documented in reliable sources. Her novel includes a message about oppression of women, manifest in patriarchal ambition to control ancient wisdom about healing and herbs and the denial of pre-Christian habits that include knowledge about female fertility, earlier exercised by midwives and wise women and men.</p><p>In “The Root of Evil” the novel is placed in a feminist tradition, where the author, like older writers like Fredrika Bremer, Ellen Key and Elin Wägner, pleads for “social mothering”.  A major difference is that, in her own life, Ulla Isaksson has experienced pregnancy, giving birth and breastfeeding which none of the pioneering Swedish feminist writers had. Emilia Fogelklou, pioneering theologian, wrote about witches as wise women, a study that influenced Ulla Isaksson. The witches are described as mirroring Hanna “the Good Mother”. Their fantasies about life at “Blåkulla” are similar to the everyday life at a wealthy farmstead. This kind of mirroring reminds of the theories of Gilbert and Gubar, who assume that female writers in the 19^th Century hid their revolt against patriarchy in mad women, like “The Madwoman in the Attic” in Jane Eyre. In the 1950s, golden age of the Swedish housewife, a female writer might well hide her anger at the circumscribed role model dedicated to women in a similar use of Anti-Women. The real witches clearly contrast the obedient protagonist, a true “Angel in the house”.</p><p>The villagers´ struggle to clear the ground from the ensnaring roots that hinder the male prosecution of witches imply a symbolic reading: this evil root is ancient matriarchal knowledge of childbearing and birth control. A theory on the original causes for the witch hunts in western Europe is introduced: the population sank in the 15^th century and one reason, beside plagues, starvation and warfare, was that women aware of how to prevent childbearing and giving birth to a lot of children were killed during the witch hunt. Churches and kings introduced the prosecution of witches and wise women, including midwives.</p>

Ulla Isaksson (1916 – 2000) wrote many novels, often with a woman or several women as protagonists. In Dit du icke vill (“Where Thou Willst Not”) from 1956 she depicts a crisis of faith in a woman, which would not have been successful had she chosen a contemporary setting. She uses an adequate historical framework, the prosecution of witches in Sweden in the 17th century, well documented in reliable sources. Her novel includes a message about oppression of women, manifest in patriarchal ambition to control ancient wisdom about healing and herbs and the denial of pre-Christian habits that include knowledge about female fertility, earlier exercised by midwives and wise women and men. In “The Root of Evil” the novel is placed in a feminist tradition, where the author, like older writers like Fredrika Bremer, Ellen Key and Elin Wägner, pleads for “social mothering”.  A major difference is that, in her own life, Ulla Isaksson has experienced pregnancy, giving birth and breastfeeding which none of the pioneering Swedish feminist writers had. Emilia Fogelklou, pioneering theologian, wrote about witches as wise women, a study that influenced Ulla Isaksson. The witches are described as mirroring Hanna “the Good Mother”. Their fantasies about life at “Blåkulla” are similar to the everyday life at a wealthy farmstead. This kind of mirroring reminds of the theories of Gilbert and Gubar, who assume that female writers in the 19th Century hid their revolt against patriarchy in mad women, like “The Madwoman in the Attic” in Jane Eyre. In the 1950s, golden age of the Swedish housewife, a female writer might well hide her anger at the circumscribed role model dedicated to women in a similar use of Anti-Women. The real witches clearly contrast the obedient protagonist, a true “Angel in the house”. The villagers´ struggle to clear the ground from the ensnaring roots that hinder the male prosecution of witches imply a symbolic reading: this evil root is ancient matriarchal knowledge of childbearing and birth control. A theory on the original causes for the witch hunts in western Europe is introduced: the population sank in the 15th century and one reason, beside plagues, starvation and warfare, was that women aware of how to prevent childbearing and giving birth to a lot of children were killed during the witch hunt. Churches and kings introduced the prosecution of witches and wise women, including midwives.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:32:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-05-20Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:43:33Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 ribeiro_fa_dr_assis.pdf: 702283 bytes, checksum: c9fa7bf27f9e5a74af41024fc94e51fd (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Com base na teoria do romance histórico contemporâneo na América Latina e da crítica literária feminista, o presente estudo tem por objetivo investigar a construção da personagem feminina Anita Garibaldi em romances latino-americanos, a partir do modelo histórico construído por Giuseppe Garibaldi em suas Memórias (1860). Idealizando sua companheira, nessa narrativa, o herói italiano constrói a imagem de uma mulher guerreira, que se move no espaço público. Mesmo seguindo o texto de Garibaldi, os historiadores posteriores complementaram a biografia da heroína brasileira, destacando a experiência dela no espaço privado, cumprindo o papel que a sociedade outorgava às mulheres no século XIX. Assim, o modelo que a história apresenta é de uma mulher ambígua, que transita entre o espaço público, aberto e o espaço privado, fechado. O trabalho que aqui se apresenta mostra como cada romancista recria a imagem de Anita, distanciando-se ou se aproximando do protótipo histórico criado por Garibaldi. Com esse intuito, escolheu-se como corpus literário os romances A guerrilheira (1979), do brasileiro João Felício dos Santos; Anita (1999), do também brasileiro Flávio Aguiar; Anita Garibaldi (2003), do argentino Julio A. Sierra; e Anita cubierta de arena (2003), da argentina Alicia Dujovne Ortiz. Em todos eles, verifica-se o intuito de reaver uma personagem da história aclamada como heroína, cuja imagem foi elaborada discursivamente por um homem que lhe concedeu características masculinas. Constata-se, desta forma, como a literatura cumpre o papel de leitora privilegiada da históri / According to the theory of the Contemporary Historical Novel in Latin America and on the Feminist Literary Criticism, this study aims to investigate the construction of the female character Anita Garibaldi in Latin American novels, from the historical model built by Giuseppe Garibaldi in his Memórias (1860). By idealizing his female companion, in this narrative, the Italian hero builds the image of a warrior woman who moves herself in the public space. Even according to Garibaldi‟s text, later historians complemented the biography of the Brazilian heroine by highlighting her experience in the private space where she accomplished the role that the society granted the women of the nineteenth century. So, the model that History presents is one of an ambiguous woman who passes between the public space, open and the private space, close. The work presented here shows how each novelist recreates Anita‟s image, moving away from the historical prototype created by Garibaldi or approaching it. With this purpose, we chose as literary corpus the novels A guerrilheira (1979) by the Brazilian writer João Felício dos Santos; Anita (1999), by another Brazilian writer, Flávio Aguiar; Anita Garibaldi (2003) by the Argentine writer Julio A. Sierra; and Anita cubierta de arena (2003) by the also Argentine writer Alicia Dujovne Ortiz. In all of them, one verifies the intention of redeeming a character of the History acclaimed as heroine whose image was discursively elaborated by a man who granted her male characteristics. One notes, for that reason, how literature fulfills its role of privileged reader of History

A perspectiva deste trabalho será a de que as diferentes experiências históricas de Henrique de Carvalho (Expedição Portugueza ao Muantiânvua: Ethnographia e história tradicional dos povos da Lunda- 1884-1888) (1890), Castro Soromenho (Lueji Ilunga na terra da amizade) (1945) e Pepetela (Lueji: o nascimento dum império) (1989) definem a forma literária, respectivamente, literatura de viagem, um conto tensionado e um romance. Três formas literárias distintas que mantêm o elo com o texto historiográfico, pois Castro Soromenho e Pepetela se apropriam do texto de Henrique de Carvalho para elaborarem seus enredos centrais que giram em torno do espaço Lunda. Tendo em vista que tal espaço potencializa as três narrativas, levaremos em conta que \"A forma não pode ser compreendida independentemente do conteúdo, mas ela não é tampouco independente da natureza do material e dos procedimentos que este condiciona. A forma depende, de um lado, do conteúdo e, do outro, das particularidades do material e da elaboração que este implica.\" (Bakhtin, M. 1992, p. 206) / In this work we aim to show that the different historical experiences by Henrique de Carvalho (Expedição Portugueza ao Muantiânvua: Ethnographia e história tradicional dos povos da Lunda - 1884-1888) (1890), Castro Soromenho (Lueji Ilunga na terra da amizade) (1945) and Pepetela (Lueji: o nascimento dum império) (1989) define certain literary forms, respectively, travel literature, tension short story and novel. These three distinct literary forms are connected with historiographic writings, for Castro Soromenho and Pepetela appropriate Henrique de Carvalho text to elaborate their central plots which focus the space of Lunda. Having in mind that space potentializes the three narratives, in this study we will take into consideration that \"The literary form cannot be understood separate from the content, and neither is it independent from the nature of the subject and the proceedings which are conditioned by this same content. Form depends on the content, and also on the particular aspects of the subject and on the elaboration it implies.\"* (Bakhtin, M. 1992, p.206)

Orientador: Antonio Roberto Esteves / Banca: Marilene Weinhardt / Banca: Mariléia Gartner / Banca: Cleide Antonia Rapucci / Banca: Ana Maria Domingues de Oliveira / Resumo: Com base na teoria do romance histórico contemporâneo na América Latina e da crítica literária feminista, o presente estudo tem por objetivo investigar a construção da personagem feminina Anita Garibaldi em romances latino-americanos, a partir do modelo histórico construído por Giuseppe Garibaldi em suas Memórias (1860). Idealizando sua companheira, nessa narrativa, o herói italiano constrói a imagem de uma mulher guerreira, que se move no espaço público. Mesmo seguindo o texto de Garibaldi, os historiadores posteriores complementaram a biografia da heroína brasileira, destacando a experiência dela no espaço privado, cumprindo o papel que a sociedade outorgava às mulheres no século XIX. Assim, o modelo que a história apresenta é de uma mulher ambígua, que transita entre o espaço público, aberto e o espaço privado, fechado. O trabalho que aqui se apresenta mostra como cada romancista recria a imagem de Anita, distanciando-se ou se aproximando do protótipo histórico criado por Garibaldi. Com esse intuito, escolheu-se como corpus literário os romances A guerrilheira (1979), do brasileiro João Felício dos Santos; Anita (1999), do também brasileiro Flávio Aguiar; Anita Garibaldi (2003), do argentino Julio A. Sierra; e Anita cubierta de arena (2003), da argentina Alicia Dujovne Ortiz. Em todos eles, verifica-se o intuito de reaver uma personagem da história aclamada como heroína, cuja imagem foi elaborada discursivamente por um homem que lhe concedeu características masculinas. Constata-se, desta forma, como a literatura cumpre o papel de leitora privilegiada da históri / Abstract: According to the theory of the Contemporary Historical Novel in Latin America and on the Feminist Literary Criticism, this study aims to investigate the construction of the female character Anita Garibaldi in Latin American novels, from the historical model built by Giuseppe Garibaldi in his Memórias (1860). By idealizing his female companion, in this narrative, the Italian hero builds the image of a warrior woman who moves herself in the public space. Even according to Garibaldi‟s text, later historians complemented the biography of the Brazilian heroine by highlighting her experience in the private space where she accomplished the role that the society granted the women of the nineteenth century. So, the model that History presents is one of an ambiguous woman who passes between the public space, open and the private space, close. The work presented here shows how each novelist recreates Anita‟s image, moving away from the historical prototype created by Garibaldi or approaching it. With this purpose, we chose as literary corpus the novels A guerrilheira (1979) by the Brazilian writer João Felício dos Santos; Anita (1999), by another Brazilian writer, Flávio Aguiar; Anita Garibaldi (2003) by the Argentine writer Julio A. Sierra; and Anita cubierta de arena (2003) by the also Argentine writer Alicia Dujovne Ortiz. In all of them, one verifies the intention of redeeming a character of the History acclaimed as heroine whose image was discursively elaborated by a man who granted her male characteristics. One notes, for that reason, how literature fulfills its role of privileged reader of History / Doutor

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The Latin-American Historical Novel’s first manifestation and the Literary Translation Field limit this research. In the corpus, we look at the study of the portrayal of historical characters integrated in the narrative. Our aim is to study more specifically the fictional configuration of the historical character Malinche, who was first fictionalized in the anonymous novel of 1826. We pretend to verify if such images contributed or not to the reputation acquired by this Native American on the collective memory of the Mexican people. We take Malinche’s first image as the basis for this study, and make a comparison between the ones present in the above mentioned translations: in English by Guillermo Castillo-Feliú (1999), and, in Portuguese by Anthoni Cley Sobierai and Gilmei Francisco Fleck (2013). Thus we intend to show the first literary configuration given to this character that is also considered the Mexican nation’s symbolic mother. This first image given in Literature differs significantly from the one given to her by the Mexican Indigenous movement (MARTIN, 2007) of early 1900’s. The methodology used in the study counts with a bibliographic review on the Historical Novel – with focus on the Traditional Historical Novel genre, according to studies of Lukács (1966) Uslar Pietri (1990), Márquez Rodríguez (1996), Ureña (1994), Grillo (2004), Fleck (2005, 2008, 2014a). This is to analyze Malinche’s images integrated in the anonymous novel’s outcome context, corpus of the research. In these terms, we present our considerations about the relations between Literature, History and Memory, according to Ricoeur (2014), Candau (2016), Albuquerque and Fleck (2015) and their effects in the Historical Novel from the readings of Xicoténcatl and its translations. Therefore, we isolated the existing images of Malinche in the original. Thus, we bring together 15 emblematic excerpts in which this character is mentioned in the narrative. These passages are analyzed, also, under the perspective of the Translation Theory, in which we call the attention to studies by Rodrigues (1999), Pagano (2000), Bassnett (2003) and Arrojo (2007), in order to compare if the essence of the first literary configuration given to the fictional character of Malinche in Xicoténcatl (1826) appears in its two translations known up to the moment, and if the relations between these images mirrored by its translations corroborate with Historiography, according to Castro Leal (1964), Herren (1993), Grillo (2011), Pulido Herráez (2011), and the Mexican collective imagination, according to researches of Karttunen (1997), González (2002), Townsend (2006), Martin (2007) and Wood (2007). / Esta pesquisa apresenta um estudo da primeira imagem literária de Malinche e compara essa configuração, efetuada na obra Xicoténcatl (1826), com aquelas presentes nas duas versões que o romance histórico latino-americano inaugural possui até o momento: a estadunidense (1999) e a brasileira (2013). O tema encontra-se, pois, circunscrito aos estudos do romance histórico latino-americano em sua primeira manifestação e ao campo da tradução literária. Neste corpus, voltamo-nos ao estudo da configuração de personagens históricas inseridas na narrativa romanesca. Mais especificamente, objetivamos analisar as configurações da personagem histórica Malinche, ficcionalizada pela primeira vez no romance anônimo de 1826, a fim de verificar se essas imagens contribuíram ou não para a reputação que tal autóctone adquiriu na memória coletiva do povo mexicano. Ao tomarmos como base essas primeiras imagens de Malinche, buscamos compará-las também com aquelas resultantes nas duas únicas versões da obra a outros idiomas: para o inglês, feita por Guillermo Castillo-Feliú (1999), e para o português, por Anthoni Cley Sobierai e Gilmei Francisco Fleck (2013). Buscamos, assim, mostrar a configuração inicial dada na literatura a essa personagem considerada a mãe simbólica da pátria mexicana – uma imagem que destoa profundamente daquela que lhe é conferida pelo movimento indigenista mexicano, no início do século XX, conforme os estudos de Martin (2007). A metodologia aplicada ao estudo proposto inicia-se por uma revisão bibliográfica sobre o romance histórico – com foco teórico na modalidade do romance histórico tradicional, de acordo com os estudos de Lukács (1966), Uslar Pietri (1990), Márquez Rodríguez (1996), Ureña (1994), Grillo (2004), Fleck (2005, 2008, 2014a) – para efetuar uma análise das imagens de Malinche, inseridas no contexto de produção do romance anônimo, corpus dessa pesquisa. Nesse sentido, apresentamos reflexões sobre as relações entre literatura, história e memória, ancorados nos pressupostos de Ricoeur (2014), Candau (2016), Albuquerque e Fleck (2015) e sua materialização no romance histórico a partir das leituras elencadas de Xicoténcatl e suas respectivas traduções. Para tanto, isolamos as imagens de Malinche presentes no romance original e, desse modo, separamos 15 trechos representativos nos quais ela é mencionada. Esses fragmentos do romance são estudados, também, sob a perspectiva da teoria de tradução, âmbito no qual destacamos os estudos de Rodrigues (1999), Pagano (2000), Bassnett (2003) e Arrojo (2007), a fim de comparar se a essência primeira da configuração literária da personagem Malinche, dada em Xicoténcatl (1826), estende-se às duas versões que o romance possui até o momento e a relação dessas imagens espelhadas pela tradução com as existentes na historiografia, segundo Castro Leal (1964), Herren (1993), Grillo (2011), Pulido Herráez (2011) e no imaginário coletivo mexicano, de acordo com os estudos de Karttunen (1997), González (2002), Townsend (2006), Martin (2007) e Wood (2007).