Fios da memória

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The Deployment of Autobiography in Heterobiography: Poetic Memory in Boitempo by Carlos Drummond de Andrade

“…Hence, Pedrosa suggests that [...] the poetic memory of childhood reading [...] indicates that childhood persists and insists, that chronology can be relativized, that narratives can overflow boundaries and that the poet [...] is actually an old boy, made of the past as it is effective today in his affective memory and in his poetic imagination, a past that thus becomes childhood, a new beginning, an open path (Pedrosa, 2011, p. 26). Therefore, following Halbwachs (1990), Silva (2009) and Miranda (1988), we can confirm that the poetry of old age in Drummond does not randomly revisit the past but is driven by the search for a possible feeling of not only the totality of individual history but also, even more so, of social history. Hence, the poetry of maturity in Drummond allows reorganizing and restructuring the parametersincluding aestheticswithin which language should be reformulated.…”

“…Furthermore, memory promotes the maintenance of the past in the present, as it allows the selection of individual and collective experiences and enables the construction of identities and alterities to link self and other, we and them (Silva, 2009). Miranda (1988) explore how the memorialistic factor presents itself in "the demand for difference". Conceiving the past as a place for reflection that is open to alterity, the author explains that memory enables the building of the "I" and causes a false sense of completeness:…”

“…45-46). Miranda (1988) also explains that a memory that manifests as a "demand for difference" is one that is able to reconstruct the past from the perspective of the present. Therefore, memory is a space for reflection because the past is taken up again to be revisited and reworked by an imaginary that is improved in the instant, the present, of remembrance.…”