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Memória e Historiografia na prosa de Augusto Frederico Schmidt
Augusto Frederico Schmidt; memorialism; historiography; narrative; Brazilian history.
The approach of literary discourse and its relations with the historical speech starts from an inquiry focused on the understanding of memory and the subject. This, while being psychosocial help in the formation of an individual memorialistic speech, whose base will serve for the construction of a collective memory, which then will be the criticality of knowledge of history, in Science condition. Critical reflection of history is Historiography, History of Philosophy shed responsibility for examining the events that marked society. This work has as its primary focus the understanding of the foundations of individual memory I in memorialistic reports White Rooster, Forests and other published texts, in prose category, the writer and businessman Augusto Frederico Schmidt. Known for its intense political activity in the Government JK, the ides of 50 and 60 in Brazil, we will come across a worried man with the record of his life and the existing connections between his artistic and biographical work and the events of an era. Some of Schmidtian texts resemble chronic, because they were published in newspapers and have the brevity, lyricism, poetry of the moment, although follow beyond circumstantial record, reaching the structure of a long and full of autobiographical narrative points. This research points out to the boundaries between memorialistic, historiographical and autobiographical texts, especially when we establish theoretical and analytical links to the aesthetic explanation of literary works in question. All psychomotor mechanism of memory, component for activation of memory, has been highlighted. Then, we approach the way in which it presents the historical discourse within the actual narratives of Schmidt and the connection of representation between memory and history within the prose.