Navegação de Cabotagem : o mosaico das memórias de Jorge Amado

Abstract

Reflections about the writing of Jorge Amado’s memoirs through theoretical understanding of the genre in question and having as focus the work Navegação de Cabotagem (2001). The research is divided in four chapters: the first chapter presents the work in its relevant aspects, and will ensure its autobiographical value with help of Philippe Lejeune’s theory (2008). The second one deals with the writing of memoirs and turns to Jacques Le Goff (2003), TzvetanTodorov (2000) and Alba Olmi (2006) to understand the process of writing literary memories. The third chapter proposes a discussion about writing of memoirs of Jorge Amado and of acceptance and denial of these memories by its author. For it was necessary to resort to the first memoir of Jorge Amado: O Menino Grapiuna (1981). In this publication memory assumed by the writer is the phase related to his childhood and his formation as a writer: base from which he will remove key elements that will make his vast literary production. Although this chapter promotes a discussion around the memories in Navegação de Cabotagem and in O Menino Grapiuna, in order to acquire about the position or complementarity of both. The fourth chapter turns to the singularity of Navegação de Cabotagem in the author’s trajectory and in the Brazilian strain of memories. It is understood, through research, that the work Navegação de Cabotagem denies the writing traditional memoirs that are guided by a lot to say on who lived long enough, since it is leveraged by the initial hypothesis of whom, because he knows enough, isn’t able to write memoir. Despite this denial, which also includes a rejection of linear writing that accompanies the events from the oldest to youngest, it is in these notes, the same self-serving nature of memories, in addition to its commemorative aspect of the written history to shoot a literary success.