Minha glória literária: memória da infância e formação do escritor em Rubem Braga e Manuel Bandeira

Abstract

Genre that established itself with peculiar caracteristics in Brazil, the “chronicle” establishes links with its original publishing vehicle, the newspaper, but also diferences that bring it closer to the literary. As na exemple is analized in Rubem Braga’s “Minha glória literária” — Brazilian writer that devoted himself uniquely to the newspaper chronicle —, the theme of childhood memories, which at first sight rules against the instant and transitory nature of the genre, but Braga approaches it under the influence of Manuel Bandeira’s poetry. At his turn, the poet from Pernambuco also uses his paper column to remember his first steps into literature, in “Confidências a Edmundo Lys”.