A infância revisitada: uma leitura do conto “Tempo de Camisolinha”, de Mário de Andrade

Abstract

In Contos Novos, a work composed of nine tales, Mário de Andrade blossoms as a short story writer in his highest expression, revealing full mastery of the genre. The present work turns to one of these tales - "Tempo de camisolinha" -, In order to outline the inner universe of the narrator-protagonist, observing, in the intricacies of his speech, the troubled relationship with his most hidden desires, as well as the combat Desire x Repression and guilt, represented in them. Our analysis highlights recurring signs and semantic fields that create meaning effects and express, under the linguistic fabric, the most intimate and hidden personal dramas of the narrator-protagonist. As for the methodological aspects, we opted for the observation of the analytic-interpretative nature of the story, in the light of psychoanalysis. The protagonist's personal and reminiscent speech was decisive for the choice of the psychoanalytic bias as the most appropriate theoretical contribution to the illumination of some significant moments of the written material that we analyzed, which, like any literary text, is constructed by memories, desires and fantasies, ingredients of central interest to Freudian theory. As for the theoretical foundations, in addition to Freud’s studies (1980), we resorted to works by LOPEZ (1988; 1989; 1993; 1996), PAULILLO (1980; 1993) and RABELO (1991). Our analysis puts us in front of a narrator who is more focused on himself, more focused on his subjectivity and inner strength. As a result, we hope, through the present study, to highlight the intimate prose of Mário de Andrade, in order to give greater visibility, both in the academic and in the school environment, to a face of this writer still insufficiently addressed.

Keywords: Mário de Andrade. Contos novos. Literature. Psychoanalysis.