Memórias renitentes em Por parte de pai e O olho de vidro do me avô, de Bartolomeu Campos Queirós

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the process of recaptulation of the protagonist-narrators of the literary works Por parte de pai and O olho de vidro do meu avô by Bartolomeu Campos Queiros, a Brazilian renowned writer from Minas Gerais. Queiros has given significant contributions to contemporary Brazilian literature. It is proposed in the research the identification of constitutive elements of individual and collective memory. In the memorialistic course the narratives bring the trivial details of the daily life of a child-narrator, in contexts of life in the company of his grandparents. Since memory is the capacity for preservation of reminiscences, it is sought to investigate its consequences for the formation of the subjects who utter themselves. It is identified that this author directs his reflections to the rescue of the past. Therefore, for such an approach, it was based in the ideias of Halbwachs (2006) and Le Goff (2003), as well as the discussions about memory from Barchelard (2008), regarding the focus in the spaces of affections that keep memories; among others, capable of eliciting visions which confirm that recaptulation contributes to rethink the present. The works “Por parte de pai” and “O olho de vidro do meu avô” show a poetic language that finalizes arranging the emotions, exceeds time and space, touches the memories, stirs and lets overflow sensations. The memories of the narrators of the works in question idealize and sacralize childhood, transforming it into a process of discovery, particularizing the variables as memory and narrative.