Compondo urupemas: observação e reflexão no processo de reconstrução das memórias de Infância, de Graciliano Ramos

Abstract

The aim of this work is to investigate the fictionalization of the discourse of the self in the construction of the past, in Graciliano Ramos's Infância. Using his capacity of observation, the experience, the sensibility and imagination, Ramos reflects about the interaction between man and society, denying the narcisical aspect associated to the genre of autobiography and getting to the universal through the particular. For that aim, we underscore the relationship between autobiography and individuality and highlight that which enables us to carry out an autobiographical reading in Infância, always bearing in mind that this is a literary work whose resources and techniques the write mastered thoroughly. We proceed, tracing a brief panorama of the 1930s and making general comments about the alagoano novelist's works as a whole. Then, we get to the main chapter, in which we deal with the focus of this research, Infância, written by an author who had written his maturity. In this chapter, we aim at demonstrating the relevance of memory in the construction of social history, highlighting the fragmented condition of the subject constitution and stressing the role of writing as an instrument of organization and construction, for oneself and for others, of an idea of identity. In the conclusion we recall some points aiming at proving the articulation - pertinent to our research - among them