"Fumaças de literatura” na epistolografia de Graciliano Ramos: estética, política e escrita literária
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2025-08-08
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Banhos, Thalita de Oliveira Simões
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Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
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This dissertation analyzes the epistolary writing of Graciliano Ramos, understanding his letters not as merely biographical or testimonial documents, but as a constitutive part of his literary work. Grounded in the epistolographic studies of Brigitte Diaz, Geneviève Haroche-Bouzinac, and Silviano Santiago, among others, the research starts from the premise that the letter, although historically marginalized within the hierarchy of literary genres, carries traces of literariness that challenge the boundaries between life and fiction, intimacy and aesthetics. The analysis of Graciliano’s correspondence reveals an author who does not separate the epistolary exercise from his stylistic rigor and literary project. This project is interpreted primarily through the lens of literary criticism by Antonio Candido, Alfredo Bosi, Edilson Moura, Ieda Lebensztayn, and Wilberth Salgueiro. The letter, thus, emerges as a space for the elaboration of the self and the other, of memory and experience, operating as a cog in the literary machine, in the terms of Deleuze and Guattari. Far from being a mere communicative tool, epistolary writing becomes a stage for aesthetic experimentation, image construction, resistance to oblivion, and the maintenance of affective bonds across distances. Through the reading of his letters, it becomes evident that Graciliano mobilizes epistolary language as an extension of his literary ethics and aesthetics, reaffirming the inseparability of life, work, and writing. In doing so, he aligns himself with a tradition of writers for whom the letter is also a form of literature — a practice that transcends utilitarian function to become a space for reflection, elaboration, and permanence
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Cartas , Escrita literária , Estética , Política , Letters , Literary writing , Aesthetics , Politics