A man in search of memory, a people in search of identity: the relationship between literature and history in the novel O vendedor de passados, by Jose Eduardo Agualusa

Currently, several theorists have discussed the relevance of historiographic metafiction to record the collective memory of certain civilizations in various historical contexts. This paper aims to provide a brief analysis of the Angolan literary production in recent decades, such as the reading of O vendedor de passados by Jose Eduardo Agualusa. Therefore, the objective is to see how the relationship between literature and history appears in contemporary African setting, particularly in Angola - taking into account, specifically, how such narratives have a very thin gap between the "real" and "invented".