Em diversas narrativas: quem foi Luís Carlos Prestes? (dos levantes tenentistas ao cárcere em 1936)

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze how representations and narratives constructed around the figure of the character Luis Carlos Prestes in his political action principles of the tenentist uprisings in the 1920s to the end after the Red Uprising in the 1930s. From authors and works (biographies, novels and string leaflets) that they portrayed verbatim, I seek to show how his image was becoming plural, mainly by the various voices, representations and narratives that focus on his return. The voices and works narrating Luis Carlos Prestes and which are analyzed here are: the biographies of his daughter, Anita Leocádia Prestes, and that of Daniel Aaron Reis; already in literature and string we have names like Jorge Amado, Antonio Queiroz de França and Medeiros Braga. I want to problematize the multiple faces so much that Luis Carlos Prestes presents these works as well as as fabricated or myth of their actions heroic.