abstract
Situated in relation to a postmodern problematization of historical knowledge, memorialistic prose, even when transformed into art, has been described in relation to memory, rather than history. Based on a biographical and historical critical approach, this essay intends to discuss the presence of fairy tales in Pedro Nava’s writings about his childhood memories in Baú de ossos (Trunk of bones, 1972), attempting to expose how these accounts are determined by autobiographical and fictional discourses.
Keywords:
fairy tales; history; memory; Pedro Nava