Quando eu me encontrava preso: a narrativa lítero-autobiografemática de Caetano Veloso

Abstract

The present thesis, based on a qualitative methodology of a bibliographic nature, aims to analyze, in the narrative “Narcissus on vacation” (p. 349-402), which composes the third part of the work Tropical Truth (2017), the discourse of the singer and composer Caetano Veloso (1942-). The construction of the aforementioned text with an autobiographical profile, conceived in the hybridization of genres, is projected from a special treatment given to language, using stylistic resources that confer literary status to the narrative. For the development of the plot - the imprisonment that took place in December 1968, together with the singer and composer Gilberto Gil (1942-) -, the real entity, Caetano Veloso, by instituting a narrator functioning in the first person, becoming a character of himself, adopts, as a narrative impulse, an “autobiographeme”: The difficulty with sleep, making emerge from the texts of various genres, which constitute the work in question, a narrative that, under the dominance of the poetic function of language, provides the reader to experience - in the scriptural universe - the horrors of the tense climate of the Brazilian military dictatorship. For the composition of the main theoretical corpus, we selected the following authors and their respective works: Anna Caballé, Figuras de la autobiografía (1987); Elizabeth Bruss, Actos literarios (1991 [1976]); José Amícola, La autobiografía como autofiguración: estrategias discursivas del Yo y cuestiones de género (2007); Leonor Arfuch, O espaço biráfico: dilemmas of contemporary subjectivity (2002); Néstor García Canclini, Hybrid cultures: strategies for entering and leaving modernity (2003); Philippe Lejeune, The autobiographical pact: from Rousseau to the internet (2014) and Roland Barthes, The clear camera (1984 [1980]) and Sade, Fourier, Loyola (1990 [1971]). With the discussions coming from the selection in focus, we seek to situate Tropical Truth in the contemporary cultural context and, as a result of our research, to highlight the existence of another possibility of reading the aesthetic product of the Tropicalian artist: the lithero-autobiographical narrative.