Romance, diário e autobiografia: tensão entre gênero ficcional e não-ficcional em Diário Íntimo (1956) e Recordações do Escrivão Isaías Caminha (1909), de Lima Barreto

Abstract

In this research we aim to explain the tensions between literary genres, autobiography, diary and romance, and its peculiarities relating to the representation in two works of Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto (1881-1922), namely, the intimate diary ([1953]1956) and Souvenirs Registrar Isaias Caminha ([1909] 1998). Still , we intend to reflect on the tensions within the genres themselves, given the fine line between private life and public life of the aforementioned writer. Thus, questions about the relationship between the literary , fictional and non- fictional genres, represent the socio-historical context in which the intellectual lived, as it met with the act of literary creation their concerns a bout its historical context . Thus, the two works in the study reflected the drama lived by the writer, their struggle against racial prejudice and its militant literature in t he period of the First Republic. For such discussions will use various theorists such as: Lejeune (2008) and Miranda (2009), to study the daily race; Bakhtin (2003), Candido (1990) and Lukacs (2000 ) for the interpretation of t he romance genre etc. Finally, the analysis of the works selected here, we had a new look on the autobiography, as well as the autobiographical novel that brings, through words, the implicit meanings in everyday and romance.