A memória como reconstrução de um mundo perdido : os traços autobiográficos entre menino de engenho e meus verdes anos

Abstract

The present work aims to comparatively analyze the works Menino de Engenho, published in 1932 and Meus Verdes Anos, published in 1956, in order to ascertain the autobiographical traits present in the first work. In this way, it is proposed to carry out a qualitative bibliographical research, using as a theoretical basis the works of Coutinho (1997) and (1991), Bosi (2021), Sobreira (1971), Trigo (2002), Castello (2001), Hollanda (2012), Martins (1980), Lejeune (2008), and others. In our research, we started with the following question: to what extent is Menino de Engenho a fiction or an autobiography, due to the degree of proximity between the author and the character? By narrating his childhood, in Meus Verdes Anos, José Lins not only recovers individual and collective memory, but also establishes clear connections with his debut novel. In this sense, during the comparison between the works, we evidenced that there are passages that transit between autobiography and fiction, therefore, framing the novel Menino de Engenho within the limits of the autobiographical novel.