The history of senses and imagination: Flávio Tavares’ memoir

Authors

  • Cláudio Pereira Elmir

Abstract

The present article analyses the book O dia em que Getúlio matou Allende e outras novelas do poder (2004) (Th e day Getúlio killed Allende and other authority novels) published by journalist Flávio Tavares during the celebration of the 50th anniversary of President Getúlio Vargas’ suicide. Placed between remembrance and autobiography, an area hard to circumscribe, Tavares’ text allows us to establish the ways in which subjectivity, with its multiple dimensions, reveals itself in the narrative. The approach used in the article highlights the rhetorical ways through which the author tries to authenticate his testimony.

Key words: Flávio Tavares, subjectivity, memoir, testimonial rhetoric, political history.

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Published

2021-06-11

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 2 (2009): May/August

Section

Dossiê: Narrativas de militância e narrativas de exílio

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