The passion of writing: memory, biographers and biographees

Authors

  • Cremilda Medina ECA/USP

Keywords:

Biography. Autobiography. Correspondence.

Abstract

This essay visits Livro das horas, Graciliano: retrato fragmentado and Aí vai meu coração. The goal is to bring the reader closer to the subjectivities of Nélida Piñon, Graciliano Ramos and Tarsila do Amaral, and map the possibilities of registering affection in written memory. Thereunto, biographical and autobiographical texts are used, as well as letter exchanges, and personal reports. Following the project to exorcise schematic standards for the presentation of thought, this article also want to resist to the limitation of criterias of the right and wrong in the creative execution of the language.

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Author Biography

Cremilda Medina, ECA/USP

Professora titular da Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo.

References

MARTINS, Ana Luísa. Aí vai meu coração: as cartas de Tarsila do Amaral e Anna Maria Martins para Luís Martins. São Paulo: Planeta, 2003.

MEDINA, Cremilda. Escritor brasileiro hoje, a posse da terra. Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, Secretaria da Cultura do Estado de São Paulo, 1985.

PIÑON, Nélida. Livro das horas. Rio de Janeiro: São Paulo: Record, 2012.

RAMOS, Ricardo. Graciliano: retrato fragmentado. 2. ed. São Paulo: Globo, 2011.

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Published

2014-07-14

How to Cite

Medina, C. “The Passion of Writing: Memory, Biographers and Biographees”. Intexto, no. 30, July 2014, pp. 37-55, https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/intexto/article/view/45857.

Issue

No. 30 (2014)

Section

Articles

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