Whatever happened to Castana, Matilde, Sergio, Domingos, Ariosto...? The missing persons as a formal principle in Chico Buarque's novels

Authors

  • Juliane Vargas Welter Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte image/svg+xml

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-901x.v0i66p69-85

Keywords:

Chico Buarque, novel, literary form, missing persons, Brazilian contemporary literature

Abstract

This paper intends to investigate the role of the missing persons in Chico Buarque's novels, combining literary form and social-historical process. This category have been seen as a central mark in the author's writing, having being repeated in novels such as Benjamim (1995), Leite derramado (2009) e O irmão alemão (2014). Therefore, taking these narratives, this paper purpose itself to examine the missing persons not only as a mark of substance, whether they are political disappearances or not, but also as a structural data from the novels and also as a mark of a contemporary literature that elaborates a repressed past.

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Published

2017-04-01

Issue

No. 66 (2017)

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How to Cite

Welter, J. V. (2017). Whatever happened to Castana, Matilde, Sergio, Domingos, Ariosto...? The missing persons as a formal principle in Chico Buarque’s novels. Revista Do Instituto De Estudos Brasileiros, 66, 69-85. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-901x.v0i66p69-85