O novo romance histórico: "Amar-te a ti nem sei de com carícias" (re)escreve a história

Abstract

The objective of this work is to demonstrate that the novel Amar-te a ti nem sei se com carícias, by Wilson Bueno, may be included in the category of the Brazilian contemporary historical fictional narratives. In the interrelationship of fiction with the history, it’s inserted the romance above mentioned. Bueno does a travel by the second half of the XIX century and beginning of the XX century, from where resound the voices of great writers, especially Machado de Assis. By means of humor, Bueno ironizes the Brazilian XIX century and, under the vision of the narrator, he doesn’t leave to pin-prick the bachelor rhetoric and poets that history buried in the ambiences of that epoch. It’s be investigated the historical characteristics narratives present in the novel Amar-te a ti nem sei se com carícias, under the vision of Leocádio Prata, here took as the narrator. The gender “historical new novel” (re)interprets the historical fact. Therefore, it utilizes fictional subterfuges. In the narrative in question, both the homage and the provocation are intentional. In one moment the narrator pays homage to the classical poets, to another moment to provoke them. Bueno revisits the history, (re)invents personages, creates comical and ironical situations, in the searching to demonstrate as the fictitious and historical facts, as well as fictitional and historical personages were narrated.