An introduction to the study of the archives from "Fundo Modesto Carone"

Abstract

This article examines some of the process documents of the writer, poet, literary critic, essayist, translator and professor Modesto Carone (1937–2019), kept in the “Fundo Modesto Carone”, by Centro de Documentação Cultural “Alexandre Eulalio” (CEDAE) of the Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem of the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (IEL/Unicamp). Using selections based on three of the author’s areas of activity (his work as a fiction writer, as an essayist and as a translator), the aim is to briefly present Carone’s archives as a new source for genetic criticism studies in Brazil, to launch some interpretative hypotheses based on the analysis of the relational spaces between the selected prototexts, and to outline the author’s writing practices, so that a basis can be established for understanding his authorial sides, as well as the relationships between them. The goal of the article is to reveal the fund’s research potential, with countless possibilities for study, from the analysis of the writing process, through the intersection between genetic criticism and translation, to research into the influence of biography on writing, criticism of criticism, and the study of correspondence.