Recovering love with Rubem Braga's chronicles

• Autor(a) principal: Simon, Luiz Carlos
• Data de Publicação: 2005
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Gragoatá
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uff.br/gragoata/article/view/33327
• topic: Rubem Braga; memory; chronicle; love; Rubem Braga; crônica; memoria; amor

This work consists in an enterprise to increase the study of the chronicle, through a specific practice of analysis in contrast with the most common approaches to the genre, centralized mainly in theoretical reasons. The article intends, therefore, to examine the memory as a resource which focuses on the theme of love in Rubem Braga's chronicles that display happy experiences and/or wholesome recollections. The analysis is guided by inquiries such as: the peculiarities and the frontiers of the genre concerned to the outstanding prosaical aspects and to the emphasis on lyrical and narrative proceedings; the remarks about love as a theme able to give rise or to avoid a grandiloquent discourse; the weight of romanticist and modernist influences in confessions of love which exploit the theme in a positive way; the depiction of the self in the chronicles as a romantic man or one identified to the new patterns of intimacy; and the role of memory in the face of social configurations in the past and in the present.