Memórias de Adriano: literatura e histórias em diálogo

• Autor(a) principal: Heleno, Alex Rezende
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4888
• topic: Literatura - História e crítica; Diálogo; Literature - History and criticism; Dialogue; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS

This dissertation has the main objective to investigate the established dialogue between literature and history in the work Memórias de Adriano by Marguerite Yourcenar. It refers to the II century, period that Rome was governed by emperor Adriano. Youcenar gives voice to the character in order to introduce him to the reader through a narrative that aims to reflect about the past. This new look about the historical facts brings an important way to rethink the historical writing, in addition to enable greater clarification for the frequent oppositions of meaning in the following expressions use: "fact and fiction", "reality and imagination", "truth and invention". For this study, we will support ourselves in theorists and critics that address those relations: M. de Certeau, G. Duby, C. Ginzburg, J. Le Goff, L. Hutcheon, L.C. Lima, P. Veyne, G. Gengembre, and others. After the theoretical- critical discussion, we will consider the questions connected to the literary genres. Afterwards, still aiming the relation between literature and history, we can notice that Yourcenar, after return to this distant past, he does not absent from the problems of the present. Through the acts and reports by Adriano, we can see that, as the author, he positions himself in defense of human values. The character and author's voices establish a critical dialogue about the humanity problems. Therefore, we have a dialogue between the present and the past. The present is determined by two World Wars that ruined the humanity, and it is also shown in some moments of Adriano's reflections when he does forethought for human beings future. And it is through this concernment with the liberty and the individual that we see to constitute the character identity. There is a discourse that leads us to know its conflicts and challenges. It is necessary to highlight that the narrator does not only reveal the desires, agonies, euphoria and private disappointments, but also the ones that seek for liberty, peace and the justice between the human beings.