Traços fragmentados de Euclides Neto – um estudo dos relatos: 64: um prefeito, a revolução e os jumentos e Trilhas da reforma agrária.

Abstract

The writer Euclides José Teixeira Neto (1925-2000), or simply Euclides Neto, as the author signs his books, articles, and documents, lived in southern Bahia and represented the region in literature and journalistic texts. Agrarian reform and the exploitative relationship between rural workers and cocoa large landowners are the theme of novels, short stories, chronicles, soap operas, and reports. Thirteen books were published in 2014 in a new edition, which allowed readers greater access to the work, thus expanding its reception. Among them are two reports, 64: A mayor, the revolution, and the donkeys (1983) and Trails of agrarian reform (1998). In them, the writer, jurist, and public administrator narrates his career in politics, his experiences as mayor of the municipality of Ipiaú, in southern Bahia, between 1963 and 1967 (during the military dictatorship in Brazil), and as secretary of agrarian reform between 1987 and 1989 (during the redemocratization of the country). The main objective is to investigate the authorial stance of Euclides Neto, that is expressed in the two aforementioned accounts, considering the thematic choices, discursive resources, photographs, documents, and journalistic articles that comprise them, as well as the impact of these elements on the construction of his self-image in the production of other works and cultural pieces. It was found in the reports, the corpus of the research, that when narrating his experiences in public office, Euclides Neto creates for himself an image of an ideal public manager, a defender of probity in public service, positioning himself alongside the underprivileged, the unemployed, and rural workers. This image reverberates in contemporary times in new cultural creations, such as documentaries, websites, podcasts, and radio soap operas.