Tempo e memória em o Cacaulista e o coronel sangrado, de Inglês de Sousa

Abstract

Inglês de Sousa was born in the city of the interior of Óbidos, located in the state of Pará, in 28 of december of 1853, and died in Rio de Janeiro, in 6 of september of 1918. The writer spent most of his life outside the hometown, but it was in the Amazon region that he was inspired to compose his literary works: História de um Pescador (1876), O Cacaulista (1876), O Coronel Sangrado (1877), O Missionário (1891) e Contos Amazônicos (1893). It is possible to consider that the appreciation, only, of the socio-political-historical documentary texture by the critics was responsible for instituting the obscuration of the aesthetic ballast of the novels O Cacaulista e O Coronel Sangrado. However, it is precisely the aesthetic ballast that keeps them alive. Thus, this research aims to study the issues of time and memory put into work by these novels. Faced with this, it is necessary thought and perform a literary criticism while listening to poetic questions. For further understanding and deepening, this research was limited to the reflection of the protagonist character Miguel Faria, who migrates from one novel to another. Thus, it is understood that this character-question lives an experience with time, which escapes the clock-clocked or even that thought by science, and in his time experience human and poetic time. To make this attempt, dialogue especially with Henri Bergson (1859-1941), Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), Benedito Nunes (1929-2011) e Manuel Antônio de Castro (1941-) to think poetically listening to the questions in those inglesianos novels.