Cronicamente positivo: uma leitura das crônicas de Caio F., antes e depois da AIDS

Abstract

Caio Fernando Loureiro de Abreu (1948-1996), writer, journalist, author of novels and dramatist, has a significant production chronicles on your collection. This work aims to, through research of chronicles published in the newspaper O Estado de São Paulo and gathered in Pequenas Epifanias (1996), point out the major changes in the literary production of the author before and after the discovery of AIDS. The paper is organized as follows: the first chapter is the presentation of the chronicle genre, a theoretical approach and then chronicles the presentation gathered in the work. In the second chapter is the presentation and analysis of the chronicles dealing with love themes, spirituality, death, relationships and AIDS before the discovery of sick. Consideration will be given the approach that the author makes of these issues before the discovery of the disease, aspects such as language, viewpoint and intertextuality are observed. In the third chapter there is a chronic analysis that address the same issues in order to observe the major changes with the chronicler and how they are reflected in the text. Chronic as hybrid literary genre, it is discussed throughout the text and promotes dialogue between literature, history and the record of the author's personal life.