As Biografias não autorizadas frente aos direitos fundamentais

Abstract

Biographies have been in people's lives for a long time. It is a fact that through biographies the reader travels over cultures, thoughts, opinions and begins to face reality in a different way, because reading about other people's lives, knowing the difficulties they have gone through, their sacrifices, successes and contributions make it possible to acquire a new way of looking at it's own life, of developing self-knowledge. In Brazil, recent years have been marked by numerous discussions and conflicts about the publication of unauthorized biographies. Several are the pros and cons arguments, for the biographers the public has the right to know the full story of the subject in focus and have the right to information, even if it’s good or bad; on the other hand, to the subject of biography someone writing about his life without the proper authorization ends up injuring his fundamental rights as a citizen, injuring his dignity. In the light of this conflict, the present work of conclusion aims at a bibliographical study on the unauthorized biographies of fundamental rights. The intention is not to identify who is right or wrong in this dispute, but to deepen the knowledge on this subject, through a literature review specialized in the proposed theme, in which a consultation of books, periodicals and articles, analyzing both sides and making a reflection on the fundamental rights and the limits they established, or not, both for the biographer and for the person who has his or her life exposed.