Memória, imaginação e transpiração no processo de fabricação do passado: a ficcionalização de si em Infância e Angústia, de Graciliano Ramos

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the literary proposal of the writer from Alagoas Graciliano Ramos that we define as "fictionalize yourself", which is the use of observation, experience, imagination and sweating as ingredients of fictional work. To achieve this goal, we seek to draw a brief political-cultural panorama of the 1930s, to situate the ideological training and the author s most significant production Caetés (1933), S. Bernardo (1934), Angústia (1936) and Vidas Secas (1938). We continued with the construction of a large Panel on the role of memory in "write on yourself", concluding on the impossibility of absolute fidelity reproduction of reality, since this necessarily passes by the subjectivity of language, which gives it an undeniable fictional character. We conceptualize autobiography and reflect in the deep changes realized in autobiographical genre, entering production in the context of memoirist Graciliano Ramos. We defend the idea that the writer anticipates, in the 1930s, that in the 1970s will be named as Self-fiction. After constructing the necessary theoretical background, we analyze and discuss excerpts from the novel Angústia, in counterpoint with Infância. Confronting the readings of these works, we are able to understand the fictional usage of traumatic events during the author's childhood as narrated in Infância in the elaboration of the child stage of the character Luís da Silva, in Angústia