BRUTA AVENTURA EM VERSOS OR ANA CRISTINA CESAR UNDER THE SPOTLIGHTS:

PERSONAE IN DIALOGUE

Abstract

This article aims to observe and discuss the relations between      Letícia Simões’ documentary film Bruta aventura em versos (2011), and Ana Cristina Cesar’s poetic and critical work, seeking to interpret how the multiple voices in the film relate to Cesar’s voice. To discuss the poet, the documentary presents interpretations of      her poetry, as expressed by her close friends and readers.      The author’s biography itself becomes the center of the discussion, which makes the narrative move between fictional and biographical spaces - a process that also occurs in her poetry, which deals with autobiographical resources, as critics have commented. In this study, we examine some features of the documentary as a genre, which contributed to      the discussion of the critical and poetical personae presented in Cesar, both evoked in the documentary. Our references are researchers who study the documentary genre, such as Bill Nichols (2005),  and      the autobiographical in Literature     , such as Lejeune (2008), Achcar (1994), and Arfuch (2010). Regarding Cesar      and her writing, we rely on authors such as Carlos Eduardo Souza (2009), and Flora Süssekind (2004).