Memória e autobiografia nos poemas sobre a infância de manuel bandeira

Abstract

The discussions about intimacy and subjectivism in the poetry of Manuel Bandeira were the cause of several disagreements in his literary criticism. The issue is further thickened in poems that present autobiographical data, especially those of a memorialistic nature. Within this perspective of interpretation, which aims to elucidate the autobiographical insertions in the poetry of Bandeira, the memories stand out for their strength and for the problematization of the constitution of the Poetic persona‟s subjectivity. To broaden these reflections, the present work aims to analyze the incidence of autobiographical data present in Manuel Bandeira's memorial poetry, in order to discover how such data contribute to broaden the senses of the Pernambuco poet's childhood memories. Therefore, the poems “Infância” (Childhood) and “Evocação de Recife” (Evocation of Recife) were selected to compose the corpus of this research. The cut is justified because such poems are directly related to two different moments of Manuel Bandeira's life: childhood in Rio de Janeiro and childhood in Recife. For the theoretical discussion, references were used about the use of autobiographical writing in the literature, such as Lejeune (2008), Rocha (2009), De Man (2012) Combe (2010), Arfuch (2010); and to specifically discuss memories in Bandeira, we rely on Gullestad (2005) and Rosenbaum (1993). Finally, based on the analyzes performed in the present study, we could verify that the autobiographical data present in these poems contribute to their interpretation and that, although these data are part of the biography of the poet of Pasárgada, it does not mean the denial of the fictionalization in these poems, establishing, therefore, that no criterion guarantees the authenticity of the facts presented in these productions.