INFÂNCIA DE GRACILIANO RAMOS: A estética da seca no romance autobiográfico

Authors

  • José Antonio Klaes Roig FURG

Abstract

Abstract: This essay analyzes the work Infância, by Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos, an autobiography that narrates the author's childhood, marked by traumatic experiences and a troubled relationship with his parents. The analysis highlights the modular structure of the work, similar to the novel Vidas Secas, and the aesthetics of drought, which permeates the narrative. The essay also explores the relationship between autobiography and fiction, and how Ramos' work subverts the archetypes of home and family. In addition, the text discusses the recurrence of terms that refer to prison, reflecting the author's experience with family and political oppression. The analysis concludes that Ramos' writing is an antithesis of the water that floods, being a dry writing that allows the reader to deeply immerse himself in the autobiographical environment.

 

Keywords: Infância; Autobiography; Novel; Aesthetics; Drought.

 

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Author Biography

José Antonio Klaes Roig , FURG

José Antônio Klaes Roig é Doutor em Letras, na área de História da Literatura pela Universidade Federal de Rio Grande e professor de Língua Portuguesa e Literatura no Colégio São Pedro, de Rio Grande, RS. É autor do livro de contos Realidade Virtual (KroArt Editores, 2004) e do livro de poesias Dicionário do imaginário: poesias do cotidiano (Amazon, 2022).

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Published

2025-05-25

Issue

VOL. 38, NO. 76 2025 - BRASIL/BRAZIL

Section

ENSAIO/ESSAY