Diários: a escrita confessional de Lúcio Cardoso à luz da teoria de Philippe Lejeune

Abstract

Starting from Philippe Lejeune’s studies on self writing that appear in the book O pacto autobiográfico (2014), the present research focuses on the work Diários (2012) by Lúcio Cardoso (1912-1968) in its most recent edition organized by Ésio Macedo Ribeiro. In his study, Lejeune dedicates a chapter to confessional writing, considering it a subgenre of autobiography and explaining the several uses of keeping a journal. The Lúcio Cardoso’s journals are a source of research for those who want to know more about the confessional writing of this writer and for those who wish to follow the way of production of his novels. They reveal, in essence, traces of introspection and fragmentation, these features will be present in his work as a whole. Interweaving the intimate writings of Lúcio Cardoso with Lejeune’s considerations, we aim at elucidating Cardoso’s text, regarded here as a starting point to understand his literary, political and religious concepts besides other themes discussed in his journals.