The Deployment of Autobiography in Heterobiography: Poetic Memory in Boitempo by Carlos Drummond de Andrade

This article discusses the conflicting relationship between autobiography and poetry in poems within Drummond’s Boitempo trilogy. Exploring this theme is significant for problematization of a rather naive reading that seeks reasons poem its extraliterary sphere, is, life poet, providing broader understanding lyrical subject as complex fictional element. Accordingly, study, we apply theoretical conceptions Hoisel (2019), Lejeune (2014), Arfuch (2010), Smith (1971) Iser (1996, 2002) to debate autobiographical space reception most astute part remembrance. The also discusses, following Halbwachs (1990), Silva (2009), Miranda (1988) Santiago (2008, 2004), collective nature memory resemanticization fiction. Moreover, our analysis selected dialogs with critical arguments Candido (2000), Villaça (2006) Pedrosa (2011) clarify how memorialistic texts propose recreation past — an “I” recognized “other” projects itself “other”, which constantly cowritten through act reading.