A Construção coletiva das memórias de Juscelino Kubitschek: pontos de vista de uma mesma história

Abstract

This Master's Degree dissertation aims at analyzing the memoirs written by Brazilian ex-president Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, especially the second and the third volumes of his memory trilogy, entitled Meu caminho para Brasília [My way to Brasília] and written in his exile, in Europe, during the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship. His remembrances synthesize: the childhood and the Medicine academic years (first volume); the beginning of his political career, as Belo Horizonte city mayor and as Minas Gerais governor (second volume); and, finally, the highest point of his political activity, i.e., the Presidency of Republic (third volume). The focus of our research is the reminiscences related to Juscelino’s political action, therefore the corpus deals mainly with the analyses of the two last volumes, being the first one just a source of consultation about his biography and other details. Beyond this memory trilogy, Juscelino Kubitschek also wrote diaries and letters, and was always in close contact with many important Brazilian writers, as his political assessors (for instance, Autran Dourado and Augusto Frederico Schmidt), or as literary partners (above all, Carlos Heitor Cony and Adolpho Bloch, the editor of Manchete magazine). For the historic and political contextualization, we used books written by the historian BENEVIDES (1979) and by memoirists who lived together with Juscelino, such as DOURADO (2000), CONY (1982) and HELIODORO (2005), among others. For the theoretical input of the project, we work with theories developed by specialists such as HALBWACHS (2006) and LEJEUNE (2008), as well as with chapters written by MORAES NETO (1997), SOUZA (2011) and TAVARES (2004).