Reflexões sobre o processo de editoração póstuma: uma história filológica das obras diário do hospício e o cemitério dos vivos de Lima Barreto

Abstract

Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto left us some unfinished works, which were edited and published posthumously. Among them, the case of O cemitério dos vivos (The cemetery of the living), an unfinished novel in whose publications it was always accompanied by Diário do Hospício (Asylum Diary) as “notes” (Barreto, 1953) for the writing of the novel, stands out. In the first edition, the book included not only Diário do Hospício, but also Lima's Diário Íntimo (Intimate Diary) (Barreto, 1953), considered to be the most important part of Lima Barreto's unpublished work (Barreto, 1953). However, the story of how these works were edited and the agents involved in this process has never been told in a critical edition or academic work. Therefore, there is a need for a philological study (recensio and collatio) of the different editions of these works so that we can see the places of criticism (divergence between the printed works and in relation to the manuscripts) and so that we can historicize them and critically review the versions established by (literary) historiography. This dissertation is a first step in that direction. Through philology, I propose a reading method for recovering the history of the posthumous publishing of these books by Lima Barreto.