As singularidades de Memórias, de Visconde de Taunay: forma, valor e lugar

Abstract

The Paraguay War of the clearing of Brazil the central are the focus of writing confessional writer of the Visconde de Taunay. Known primarily for work Inocencia (1872), Taunay also produced a set of texts of different features on the experiences from their military works, among them are Scenas de Viagem (1868); Diário do Exército (1869), the story "Ierece a Guana" (1874) and Memorias (1946). This circuit confessional, the work Memorias, object of study, draws attention by the relationship with the tradition of narrative writing memory and the uniqueness of the facts presented, that bring to light a long string of episodes on the historical period experienced by the author: the Monarchy and transition for the Republic. In reviewing the characteristics of Memories, under different optical, talks about the relationship of this work with the confessional demarcated circuit, which is part; critical gap on the result of its late release, on the narrative of the memories and on value and the place of this text posthumous brasilian literary historiography. To this end, the theoretical apparatus on confession focuses on studies of Lejeune (1994) and Todorov (2000), the concepts on literary criticism comes from Compagnon (2003) and Moisés (2002) and information on literary historiography are searched in Bosi (1994); Candido (1997, 2002) and Moisés (2002).