O reacionário - memórias e confissões, de Nelson Rodrigues: encontros e desencontros

Abstract

O Reacionário – memórias e confissões (1995), by the journalist, playwright and chronicler Brazilian Nelson Rodrigues is a work which follows the commandments against the sixties in several fields in the human life. The research defines one purpose: to analyse the rodrigueano work according to his living conception and about the facts from the “Anos de Chumbo”, whose title is O Reacionário – memórias e confissões, de Nelson Rodrigues: encontros e desencontros. According to the fictionality and the historic facts in the narratives from the work in study. The work is contextualized about the narrative, which is a collectanea of narratives written between the sixties and seventies years, supported in literature explained by Massaud Moisés (2006) who gives an explanation about the textual gender. To treat about the narrative, it has Luís Costa Lima‟s study (1989). According to the questions between literature and history, it follows the ideas of Vera Harabasi Hanna (1977), Hayden White (1994) and Maria Teresa de Freitas (1986). About the engaged literature, the study carries Benoît Dennis‟ (2002) and Antônio Cândido‟s ideas (2002), among others writers. In this way, the study was worked in three chapters, using a bibliographical research, and the results show the validity of the hypothesis, pointing that it is possible there is a relation of the history and fiction in literary works, specially, in the textual gender narrative.