Do diário ao romance: representação literária em Quarto de despejo (1960) e Pedaços da fome (1963), de Carolina Maria de Jesus

Abstract

It is taken as perspective the study of aspects capable of giving us clues of new representative forms that occur in the bordering space of Modernism with Contemporary Brazilian Literature. Therefore, we propose a detailed analysis of literary genres produced by Carolina Maria de Jesus, namely, her first published work Child of the dark: The diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus ([1960] 2004) and the only published novel Pedaços da fome (1963). The choices regarding to the writer and her works are based on the proposal raised by Bakhtin (2003) concerning that every community or every sphere of human communication will match an universe of communication’s genres. What is glimpsed at, in this sense, that a change in the sphere of communication can be viewed in the genres produced by it. So, we bring to this paper the proposal of reflecting how far Carolina Maria de Jesus is, at ease, among the literary genres chosen by her, as well as the way how it performs the function of self-representing. These are discussions that we will make departing from theorists such as Candido (1990) and Bueno (2006), to analyze of literary representation; Lejeune (2008) and Miranda (2009), to study the diary genre; Bakhtin (2003), Robert (2008) and Lukács (2000), for understanding the romance genre. From this way, through the dialog between works and theories, we will have conditions of constating, among other aspects, the birth of a ‘new’ novel’s writer Carolina Maria de Jesus, sometimes diverse from the diarist; and the pioneering of Pedaços da fome for Brazilian Literature, through the project that takes as aim ‘to educate’ the elite, as it will be seen.