The diaries of Guimarães Rosa: study and authorial dialogue

Abstract

Almost unknown by critics, the diaries of Guimarães Rosa constitute a particular view of the fictional and autobiographical in his work. In this article is the diary written in Paris that will be focused, as it is the one that recovers most reflections about writing itself and about the literary doing. Exposing an interest of the writer by diaries of other writers, the investigation into mechanisms of narration of self and the relation of this self-contemplation with the world was extended to chronicles and to one of the prefaces of his last book, which will also be explored in this article, when we will see the incorporation of the discussion about literature engaged from the intimate writing.