This work discusses the process of construction of memory in the novel Two Brothers, by
Milton Hatoum (2000), from the fragmentation element. To this end, it uses the theoretical
notes of Giorgio Agamben (2009), on the contemporary literary work; Anthony Giddens
(2002) and Stuart Hall (2013), with the notes on High Modernity and/or Later Modernity, as
well as the idea of hybridity, discussed by Hall (2013). To understand the memory game in
the hatouniana narrative, taking into account that there are gaps and silencing in the
memories, based on the critical-theoretical studies of Michael Pollak (1989), Maurice
Halbwachs (2003), Didi-Huberman (2011) and Carlos Borges da Silva Júnior (2008). The
conceptions about the postmodern narrator are starring by the theoretical incursions of
Silviano Santiago (2002 [1986]) in contrast to the studies of Walter Benjamin (2012). For the
analysis, were selected the excerpts from the book Two Brothers, that highlight the memory
fragments of the characters Halim and Nael, having as methodology the analysis literary
narrative. As a result of the study, is it possible point out that the images of the past appear as
flashes, an intermittent aspect of memories.
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