Um estudo das crônicas de viagem: Luz e som de Bombaim, Chartres e A Ilha do Nanja, de Cecília Meireles

Abstract

The following work rises as a proposal to join two Scientific Initiation – PIBIC articles, entitled “Cecília Meireles: A cronista artesã” and “A Prosa Poética de Cecilia Meireles na Crônica de Viagem: Luz e Som de Bombaim”, which were developed in the research project Literatura de Viagens: Intertextualidade e Interdisciplinaridade nas Crônicas de Cecília Meireles, coordinated by Prof. Dr. Luís Antônio Contatori Romano. Although these articles have been developed separately, they complement each other and are related to the themes: Prose, Poetry, Oral Narrative and Memorialism. This work has as main purpose to analyze and relate the carioca writer Cecília Meireles’ travel chronicles, the first chronicle that we’ll analyze resulted from a trip to the East in 1953 – more specifically to India – entitled “Luz e Som de Bombaim”, in which we’ll stick to the poetricity in it. Afterward we’ll study the chronicle “Chartres”, in which it’s intended to relate, from a historical point of view, the oral narrative with the craft world, precapitalist, locating in the craft work, an favorable environment to the oral narratives diffusion, as also comparing the oral narrative structure to the handmade work practice and for that we’ll use Walter Benjamin’s ideas observed in the essay “O Narrador – Considerações sobre a obra de Nicolai Leskov”. Besides, from the reading of the chronicle “A Ilha do Nanja”, we’re seeking to show references of the “memorialist” trip made by the chronicler. Cecília Meireles travels to the Azores, to the São Miguel Island, in Portugal. The Nanja Island doesn’t exist, it’s a poetic license. Cecilia immerses into her ancestors' memories and transforms them into narratives. The theoretical basis that we’ll support is composed by Octávio Paz (1973), Walter Benjamin (1987), Alfredo Bosi (2001), Davi Arrigucci Júnior (1987), Margarida Maia Gouveia (2001).