Memórias sem malícia de Gudesteu Rodovalho, de Gilberto de Alencar, e O Ateneu, de Raul Pompéia – leitura em movimento: incursões intertextuais e arquivo pessoal

Abstract

This research presents a study on the novel Memórias sem malícia de Gudesteu Rodovalho, by the Brazilian writer Gilberto de Alencar, from a documentary set of exchanged letters to the writer. This epistolary dialogue was enlarged by the increase of the missives of Cosette de Alencar, who was a writer and also the holder's daughter. This collection, stored in Museu de Arte Murilo Mendes (MAMM) in Juiz de Fora, defined two strealines of investigation: the first one was the elaboration of a new edition of sources or annotated edition of missives, which was done to comment on the chosen book, and the second one had its origin in the criticism of the signatories, which used the epistolary writing to reflect upon the intertextual relation between the cited book and the book O Ateneu, by Raul Pompéia. To do so, two theoretical sources were the base of this research: the intertextuality, responsible for part of the developed studies, and the Genetic Criticism, which pointed out the other part of the records, allowing the reader to make insights of the context from the text. This is the great enchantment of the personal archive: to reveal the man-writer attested by the spontaneity and by the intimacy that have marked the personal letterexchanging.