Candido: na trama das lembranças de Drummond e Murilo

Abstract

In “Poetry and Autobiographical Fiction” Antonio Candido ad-dresses the issue of memory throughout history in authors from Minas Gerais, focusing particularly in Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Murilo Mendes and Pedro Nava.  The approach proposed here retakes some of his ideas about the first and second writers, electing especially the books Boitempo I and A idade do serrote to reveal fragments of the lived apprehended from “scenes, cases and emotions”, specific traces of both transfigured and resignified liter-ally in the two books. Thus, here is Candido that, underlining sharp-ly key points in the text of each of these writers, offers readers various interpretive directions including that which establishes subtle relations with psychoanalysis. That is the objective sought here.