Infância, de Graciliano Ramos: memória ou autobiografia?

• Autor(a) principal: Possebom, Rute Augusto
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14684
• topic: Infância; Graciliano Ramos; Gênero; Memória; Autobiografia; Literary genre; Memory; Autobiography; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS::TEORIA LITERARIA

The objective of this dissertation is to reflect upon the problematic proposed by Infância by Graciliano Ramos. The reading, analysis and even the process of research of secondary sources reinforce, repeatedly, the possibility of interpreting the text as a composition proper to fictional narratives or even as an autobiography. It is in this two-way perspective that this investigation is proposed. The hypothesis is to test, based on the traces of memory and on the voices that were part of the narrator‟s childhood, the value of the work as part of the genre of autobiography. A second hypothesis takes us to a reading of the texts in its fragmentary characteristics which denote a structure that forms a group of stories and, consequently, a fictional work. So as to verify the hypotheses, a study was carried out about autobiography, memory in the construction of the story, the importance of poetic language and, using selected extracts, the exposure of facets of the narrator in his relationships in the context associated with family and school, as well as his own self-portrait. As a conclusion, the research suggests a double reading of the work. If, on the one hand, aspects of Graciliano Ramos‟s life are present in the narrative, on the other hand, poetic language constitutes a mask and pretence. Therefore, the predominance of aspects strongly founded on memory allows one to apprehend traces of reality and, at the same time, transforms the past of the boy, characterizing him as the protagonist of a narrative which is also fictional