Autobiografia e ficção em Xente de Inverno, de Xosé Lois García

Abstract

Still little known in Brazil, Xosé Lois García, that was born in Lugo, in the Galician autonomous community, Spain, is an important role in the culture and Galician literature. Scholar of cultural manifestations and Romanic art and its symbols, literary reviewer and writer, he has its largest production in poetry, although he has narratives of great relevance. The subject of this study is one of his books, Xente de Inverno (1995), which brings together fifteen short stories, whose plot is set in Galicia from 1940s and 1950s, which establish a dialogue with reality experienced by the author in its childhood. The texts of this collection transit between history and fiction, with a language full of lyricism and strong presence of the author and Galician society cultural memory. By means of literature review procedure, literary analysis and criticism, this paper aims to investigate the boundaries between the biographical and the fictional writting in Xente de Inverno, in order to understand the relationship between fiction and memory. From this correlation we believe to be possible to understand the possibilities and limitations resulting from the combination of autobiography and fiction genres, and also connect the author's personal experience with the ideologies spread in his narrative.