and the remembrance share the architectural experience and involve the dynamics of space, movement, and narrative19. It is possible to justify, in this way, the choice of the narrator as a pilgrim. By making spatial practice viable, Sebald simultaneously enables the emergence of memory. In this double process, it is the itinerary that constructs the meaning and that, in turn, shapes a kind of mapping. In the map established by Sebald, it is essentially the movement that mobilizes the narrator’s crossing points, as will be seen below.
1.2 The Rings of Saturn: Movements as mobilized territories20 According to the initial presentation conducted around the theme of pilgrimage, the question of the traveler reaches its most potent representation in the work The Rings of Saturn. With the starting point of the book inscribed from the pilgrim’s movement, the itinerary that unfolds here incorporates the mapping recorded by the narrator’s journey. In this sense, it is the formalization of the act of walking that guarantees access to the ash. In addition to what was outlined previously, there is also a personal configuration in the interest shown by Sebald about the pilgrimage. The access to the vast set of references evoked in his books usually takes place from the perspective of the walk, as we have already mentioned. For the writer, the traveler’s approach – essentially, with regards to the observation of nature – develops a more accurate look, even close to what can be seen in the observation exercise of some
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“This is how architectural experiences – which involve the dynamics of space, movement and narrative […].” (BRUNO, 2018, page 57, own highlights) 20 Em articulação com o argumento de Giuliana Bruno, professora e investigadora da Universidade de Harvard: “Architectural frames, like filmic frames, are transformed by an open relation of movement to events. Rather than being vectors or directional arrows, these movements are mobilized territories, mappings of practiced places.” (Ibid., page 57)
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