The tracks of agony and pain in imprisonment: sinuous pathways of writing

Abstract

In this paper, we aim at analyzing the writing of subjectivity by means of the construction of memory from the circumscription of a place: jail. In this way, we are working with the book entitled Memórias do Cárcere, written by Graciliano Ramos, and we intend, through the investigation of certain traces evidenced in some passages, to understand to what extent the writing considered as a form of testimony of the author portrays the suffering referred to experience of custody in a prison institution. We concluded that the journey by the writing of these pages has an address and the author directly or indirectly wanted to share his bitter experience with those interested in knowing about it.