The Fabrication of a Coexistence

Abstract

A reading of Bernando Carvalho’s narrative “Nove noites” and of Graciliano Ramos’  critique of the film “Descobrimento do Brasil”, by director Humberto Mauro, making possible for the author to design the relations between  the State, art and intellectuals of the 1930s, between culture and society, between time and history, past and present, history and literature, with the goal of rehearsing a politics of memory and of generations, which does note erase difference, but which tries to keep and incites a tense coexistence between past and present, between the real and the possible.