IRONIA, MEMÓRIA E ALEGORIA EM LEITE DERRAMADO, DE CHICO BUARQUE DE HOLANDA.

Abstract

This paper offers a reading of the novel Leite Derramado (2009), Chico Buarque, the main theorist Walter Benjamin. The irony, memory and allegory are the main elements that promote the analysis of the work. From the diagnosis of the philosopher that the traditional form of narrative as art of giving advice and authentic experience transferability, would be endangered, the research proposes to investigate the possibility of their survival in the contemporary world. The novel analysis collects the discontinuous and fragmented account of narrator, Eulalio. Themes such as death, old age, memory is fundamental to understand the trajectory of the character s life. The work has a very strong character and the literary elements, the title itself, Leite Derramado is a metaphorical allusion to things not lived the character, so it notices a memory and melancholy. All these elements of memory and melancholy mix in a literary set of production, with the focus also irony and allegory.