FERREIRA DE CASTRO: FROM PERSONAL ARCHIVES AS LITERARY PARATEXTS

Authors

  • Adriana Aguiar Universidade Federal do Amazonas - UFAM

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2175-3180.v4i8p148-157

Keywords:

Ferreira de Castro, Biography, Archive, Literary critique

Abstract

The question that we enquire in this text is to think about how the Portuguese author Ferreira de Castro’s image was built and how this image goes through the critical readings which have been done about his work. In other words, we are going to deal with an issue involving the studies on Castro’s work, the issue related to the representation of the author’s personal archives: texts, which, not rarely, lead or led the reader to the understanding of a fictional work, specifically of A Selva, as a true report, as an anthropological document, as a socialist manifest and even as a mirror that reflects the life of that who wrote the novel. We used what Gérard Genette defines as “paratexts” in order to suggest the reason why the issue of representation became prominent on the readings that have been done on this Portuguese writer’s novel.

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Published

2012-12-05

How to Cite

Aguiar, A. (2012). FERREIRA DE CASTRO: FROM PERSONAL ARCHIVES AS LITERARY PARATEXTS. Revista Desassossego, 4(8), 148-157. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2175-3180.v4i8p148-157