The lied chidhood and the profaned future: the narratives by Valêncio Xavier

The works of Valêncio Xavier are characterized, in formal terms, by using various types of images (drawings, photographs, newspaper articles, flip books), elements that make hybrid narratives. Such artifacts are arranged in order to compose an album in the novel Minha mãe morrendo e o menino mentido and an obituary in Meu 7º dia: uma novella rébus. From a lied childhood to a desecrated funeral, Valêncio Xavier lights and reworks childhood memories and designs and mocks the inevitable future. Thus, this study aims to discuss structural and thematic attributes of the works of this Brazilian author to reflect on these narrative albums that create the past and the future.

contemporary Brazilian literature; profanation; album; Valêncio Xavier