Year: 2013
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This study intends to offer an interpretation of the work Memórias do cárcere (1953), by Graciliano Ramos, having as its axis of analysis the configuration of the narrator throughout the account.By means of this configuration, the study aims at extracting, from the text that offers the confession of a subject who "has one foot in the grave", the materials that were addressed by the writer.In this way, it"s possible to apprehend the internal structuration of this material as the sedimentation of a historically determined reality.The hypothesis is that, between the 1940"s and 1950"s, the narrator"s reconstruction of his experience in jail enables him, through the fusion of voices and temporalities and by means of an incisive reflection on a limit-situation, to question aspects of the Brazilian sociability, vicissitudes pertaining to the realm of party politics and dilemmas that characterize the complex situation of the dependent and engaged intellectual in modernity.
Author: Fabio Cesar Alves
Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
Language: Portuguese
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W1485065531