As raízes do Brasil em Leite derramado, de Chico Buarque

Abstract

This article investigates the textual strategies that literature employs. More specifically, the essay looks into Chico Buarque's use of these strategies in his novel Leite derramado to stage, through the paths of fiction, the fusion between public and private that has characterized the Brazilian historical and political contexts. In this context, the essay demonstrates how Eulálio's orgins, articulated in his memorialistic discourse, are infused by what the historian Sérgio Buarque de Holanda has called the roots of Brazil.