Narrativas do passado e vozes da ficção : uma análise sobre a construção da memória de Getúlio Vargas na obra "Quem Matou Vargas", de Carlos Heitor Cony

Abstract

Getúlio Vargas is, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the most intriguing figures in Brazilian history. From this perspective, in this paper we seek to understand how the memory of Getúlio Vargas was constructed and represented in the literary work “Quem matar Vargas: 1954, uma tristeza brasileira” (Who Killed Vargas: 1954, a Brazilian Tragedy), by renowned writer and journalist Carlos Heitor Cony. We will address the way in which literature and history intertwine in Cony’s work to construct a specific memory of Vargas. To this end, we analyze historiographical texts about the context of the 1950s, based on researchers such as Ângela de Castro Gomes, Jorge Ferreira and Maria Celina D’Araújo. In the theoretical methodological scope, important support is provided by authors such as Sandra Jatahy Pesavento, Gabriela Lima Grecco and Roger Chartier, who through their works contribute to the concept of representation and the link between history and literature. Michael Pollak and Phillipe Joutard, in turn, support research through the notions of memory and history.