Between memory and exile: a reading of Bartolomeu Campos de Queirós

Abstract

This article aims to contribute with the debate about the work of the writer Bartolomeu Campos de Queirós, taking memory and exile as central aspects in the construction of his literary text. For this, we will analyze how the author intertwines the memories of childhood with his fantasy, articulating autobiographical and fictional elements. Then we will approach the theme of exile, in its concrete dimension and in its symbolic effects, in a movement that goes from negative experience to aesthetic resignification. For the study, we used a framework that allowed the theoretical foundation around the highlighted concepts, as well as jut the presence of metalinguistic reflections and the relations of the fictional text with the historical context.