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Memories of Prison

Book Review by: Marcopolo     

Original Author: Graciliano Ramos
This abstract was translated from Memórias do Cárcere
Memories of prison
In 1953, comes the first of four volumes of "Memories of Cárcere." The metaphor of
tyranny (...) is superlativa throughout his work, and define the notion that the author formed of the man and his tragic fate. Extending our analysis, say that the tragic events-political, in which he is involved, and without knowing why, having served for what his vision of the world even more pendesse for the certainty of dramatic. Needless traçarmos rigid boundaries between confession and testimony biographical history at the time. The unit will fall to the end always realism. This is the Brazil of 1930, in the view of those who lived in the basements unclean: miseries, torture and degradation perpetrated by, ironically named, NEW STATE. The speech is realistic because it also hosts the real and breaks it in two ways: the documentary to the psychological, in particular to the universal. Of course, all this under the aegis of oppression. See the following excerpt of the work: "The world is becoming fascist. In a world so that in future reservariam? Probably there was no place for us, we were ghosts, rolaríamos from prison in prison, findaríamos a concentration camp. No utility represented in the new order. If we largassem, vagaríamos sad, harmless and jobless, living tatters, ghosts premature; like crazy, recolhermo us to the hospice or have courage to tie a rope to the neck and make diving decisive. These ideas, repeated, vexavam me; both me embrenhara them that I felt completely lost. "
Published: February 19, 2008
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