Rubem Braga com a FEB na Itália: crônicas-reportagens, literatura da notícia

Abstract

When he returned from a sojourn as a correspondent for Diario Carioca during World War II, with the Brazilian Expeditionary Force (FEB), Ruben Braga (1913-1990) published a collection of chronicles called Com a FEB na Itália (With FEB in Italy) (1945). While selecting texts, the author surely considered Brazilian mid-1940s political and ideological context, a singular moment in Brazil: a "redemocratization" was intended for the country and political parties were being formed. Presidential elections were scheduled for December 2 and President Getúlio Vargas was forced to resign; his successor began to repress Communists and appointed new intervention-agents in the states and some mayors were replaced, as Boris Fausto stated in História do Brasil (History of Brazil) (2010). Taking such information as a starting point, the present thesis is intended to survey Com a FEB na Itália’s value as a historical record, as well as to point out its narrator’s subjective marks, since – due to a tension between classic, modern and postmodern narrative foci in this work – the narrator's subjective marks become noticeable by themselves. And the particular and set time traversed by the experience and personal memory of the reporter mixes with subjective and objective language – literature and journalism, respectively – the texts of the chronicles.