Memórias desdobradas: o caráter autobiográfico em Ainda Estou Aqui de Marcelo Rubens Paiva

Abstract

The autobiography is caracterized by narrador life crossing with the author as well, in which his speech is enpowered, and it is told in direct speech by memorybias generally. At the dawn, then, in the autobiography writing a person who livedsome experiences and tells despite of his sight and sensation. Based on this premiss, the paper exposed has kept as its goals to analyze the autobiography in the book Ainda estou aqui, by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, as its basis in the memories impacts. The book worked, brings some shattered memories from Marcelo Rubens Paiva which it came from his childhood, which it is going throughhis teenager to his adult life, in which it is mixed with some current facts, resultingin time changing. The narrative core is the maternal and fatherhood characters. The first one has the admiration and proud of the narrator in front of her strong personality, but pain, because of death of her memory gradually, faced by Alzheimer; his father, the congressman who is disappeared and, then, dead by military dictatorship regime, coming strongly in his memory as flashes, and it hashighlighted some evidences when he lived with his father when he was alive. It isinterested to realize how the narrator-author creates a dialogue with his memory and what they represent to him. The research is qualitative,into bibliographycal supports by some thoughts as Lejeune (2014), Arfuch (2013) about the autobiography; Halbwachs (2003) about memory studies. The autobiography writing by Marcelo Rubens Paiva in Ainda estou aqui shows a special attention to his family and himself, however without to reintroducing some new impressionsabout brazilian military regime, because deny it, must be to erase some marks left into him by this trauma, in his relatives and in the brazilian society.