Imagens do eu: memória e imaginação em O Rio e Eu, de Lygia Bojunga

Abstract

The memorialistic genres have had a particular relevance on Lygia Bojunga literary work. Livro – um encontro (1988), Feito à mão (1996) and O Rio e eu (1999) are those ones that takes a noticeable spot on that perspective. In her works, the Memory can be seen as a “place of reflection” that, after being problematized, settles down as a “metamemory”. In return, this metalinguistic nature is doubly presented in the works of that writer: firstly, in the process of Remembrance, discussed in terms that passes through Memory and Oblivion; and second, in the connection between Memory and Literary Creation process. This work will focus on O Rio e Eu, which narrates its “love fair” with Rio de Janeiro city. Thus, this article dialogues with the literary work Corpos escritos: Graciliano Ramos e Silviano Santiago (1992), by Wander Melo Miranda and other theoretical contributions, regarding to memory in order to perceive it as a “double file of self”, in which this “self” fragmentsitself into several, since then, as the writer goes back to her relationship with Rio de Janeiro, she stares her human condition and uncovers her.proximity with the imaginative process.