Posthumous Memories

The smallness human being Spilled, of Chico Buarque de Hollanda, 195 pages, Publishing company Company Of the Letters, launched Milk in 2009, portraies the history of the powerful Assumpo family, in the version of Eullio, one aged gentleman, interned in a hospital, son of Assumpo senator, who recollects, repetidamente, for its son and the nurses, its history and the declining trajectory of its familiar base, presenting historical facts of Brazil and the incrusted bourgeois mentality in the Brazilian politics, as well as its traumas and its adventures. The book mixes fiction and reality without long expositions and with the concise maestria that Chico in such a way shows in its poetical musical comedy. Eullio remembers Brs Cubas, of Axe of Assis, for its failure, exactly being fruit of the social elite. The workmanship, as well as the text of Axe, in Posthumous Memories of Brs Cubas, if discloses in short chapters, repeated scenes, in a species of videoclipe. As any half esclerosada elderly already, Eullio shows its repeated slips times, in disordered way, with ironies and ideologies thematically disorganized, however without losing of sight Matilde, its love badly decided, abandoned that it and marked its sadness in the life. The tram ratifies the talent of Chico Buarque for the literal brevity, becomes that it capable to suggest very in very little words. The melancholy of an aged one if states in thoughts that if come back more toward the past that stops the gift and the future: ' ' To the step that the future time if narrow, the people new have of if accumulating at any cost in one I sing of my head. Already for the past I have a hall each more spacious time, where my parents fit with recess, distant grandmothers, cousins and college colleagues that I already had forgotten, with its respective full halls of relatives and contrarelatives and you penetrate with its loving, more the reminiscncias of this people all, until the time of Napoleo' '.