Crônicas de Graciliano Ramos em Cultura política (1941- 1944): estudo crítico

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Faria, Patricia Aparecida Gonçalves de [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Ramos, Graciliano 1892-1953; Periódicos brasileiros; Cronicas brasileiras; Literatura brasileira; Literature
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/113813

The alagoano writer Graciliano Ramos (1892-1953) has always been known and honored by the criticism and the public as a great writer of novels and memoirs. After being politically arrested during the time of the Estado Novo, he decided, after leaving th prison and achieving recognition among the publishers and known intellectuals, to live in Rio de Janeiro. However, he faced up serious financial problems in the capital, along with his wife and kids, and he noticed that living only of literature wouldn’t be so easy. Joining the practice of writing novels and short stories the to the press of the time, he collaborated from the years of 1941 to 1944 in Cultura Política: revista mensal de estudos brasileiros – monthly magazine of Brazilian studies - (1941-1944), the main publication of the Press and Advertising Department (PAD), controlled by the Estado Novo, which was responsible to send him to prision in 1936, without, at least, a formal accusation. Thus, considering the intellectual and literary path of the writer of Vidas Secas, this research aims, from the analysis of some chronicles published in Cultura Política and later chosen to be part of the posthumous publication of Viventes das Alagoas (1962) and Linhas Tortas (1962), at studying the characteristics of the magazine and its strategies to maintain the group of important people, such as Graciliano Ramos and, certainly, to verify the strategies of the writing used by the writer to help the State without, however, to surrender to the government ideology. This study still aims at defining in the chronicles of Cultura Política the relation to the writer’s point of view with the Brazilian northeast custom, the importance of the language and the literary life and the political and economical connection linked, more specifically, to the northeast