Retratos em abismo: poses e posses do diário de Maura Lopes Cançado

Abstract

This paper discusses aspects of life and work of writer Maura Lopes Cançado focusing, first, on journalistic portraits (between 1954 and 2015) in which, in general, the condition of madness presides over their reception; and in critical portraits (articles, mentions in works and academic studies). In our analysis of the authors autobiographical work, Hospício é Deus, diário I, we focus her production as a self and literary portraitist, examining how, through conscious technical and creative effort, the author transcends the symbolic plastering of madness and emerges as a writer of Brazilian modernity.