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<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="section"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>This article addresses issues of local memory in Manuel Rivas’s novel </span><span>Todo é silencio </span><span>(</span><span>2010</span><span>) and takes as its starting point Pierre Nora’s twin notions of </span><span>lieu de mémoire </span><span>and </span><span>milieu de mémoire. </span><span>By focusing on a specific site portrayed in the novel —the </span><span>escola de indianos, </span><span>a building that once housed a progressive school— we analyze the ways in which the author deploys the building not merely as a setting, but also as aestheticization of the interstices between history, memory, and forgetting.</span></p></div></div></div></div>