Resumen

D'ALESSANDRO BELLO, María Elena. Sumario (brief) of Federico Vegas: A topography of personal and collective memory. Letras [online]. 2012, vol.54, n.87, pp.30-40. ISSN 0459-1283.

Sumario (Brief) of Federico Vegas takes a forgotten fact of Venezuelan contemporary history and brings it again to the public arena through fiction with the intention of questioning it and of asking the past how the only magnicide in Venezuelan history came to occur. The power of fiction reveals that nothing is really lost and forgotten; everything still exists and fiction can invoke it and make it present. After sixty four years, fiction asks the past and makes it speak and tell us the reason of our present.

Palabras clave : Caracas; modernization; history; magnicide; urban memory; personal; collective memory.