THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL IN MEU PÉ DE LARANJA LIMA

Abstract

This paper focuses on the analysis of the literary work Meu p de laranja lima, in which the author Jos Mauro de Vasconcelos relates his own childhood through a child character. In the plot, however, there is the authors alleviation and seeking for the recognition of readers, which according to autobiography theorist Philippe Lejeune (2008) configures the autobiographical pact that is given by the relationship between author, narrator and character. The confessional literature holds confessions and secrets of the authors; Maria Luza Remdios (1997) explains that the public is interested in confessional literature because we have the tendency to identify ourselves with what is close to our reality, thereby establishing a pact with the reading public. During the work, the author may assume identities or self-sense, and in Jos Mauros case it is supposed he saw writing as an option for alleviation, by recalling his childhood and freeing himself from the past. Therefore, we confirm that this literary work is an autobiographical writing, and understand what the autobiographer looks for in writing about himself, and that this newest genre of writing is widely accepted by the public.

Keywords

• pacto autobiográfico
• literatura confessional
• identidade.