Representation and memories of trickery, in Memórias de Madame Satã, by Sylvan Paezzo

Abstract

The book entitled Memórias de Madame Satã (1972), written by Sylvan Paezzo, the protagonist narrates his story to the journalist Sylvan Paezzo himself. Nicknamed Madame Satã, he faced racism and prejudice for being black, artist and transsexual. And because of their experiences received nickname of roguish, the roguish according to Antonio Candido (1970), is an individual who lives outside the norms set by society, standing between order and disorder. João Francisco dos Santos describe in detail the facts experienced, that is, triggers his memory to tell about his life, Le Goff (1990) affirms that memory is a property that stores information and a set of psychic functions, in which man can update knowledge and experiences. Considering these aspects, the research objective to analyze the representation of the rascal in the book Memórias de Madame Satã (1972), by Sylvan Paezzo, identifying the construction of the character, the memories and their representation in brazilian society, as rascal, artist and person. Therefore, of bibliographic nature, the research will have as theoretical support, the studies of Antonio Candido (1970), DaMatta (1997), Roberto Schwarz (1987), Roberto Schwarz (1987), Le Goff (1990), Pierre Nora (1978), Maurice Halbwachs (2013), François Dosse (2015), Zilá Bernd (2017), among others.

Keywords

• madame satã
• memórias
• malandragem
• representação.