Jorge Amado’s stories in his cabotage navigations

Abstract

In this work, the book Navegação de cabotagem (1992) is seen as a privileged space for dialogue with the writer Jorge Amado and his work, space at the same time to unify and disseminate human and intellectual experiences, marked by the cribble of the role and witness, of the reason and emotion, of the glory and the simplicity in conducting an existence. The book is presented as a kaleidoscope of experiences and knowledge, memory and history, literature and life, art and culture, fact and fiction, memory and legacy, denouncement and delight – finally, it notes for a possible autobiography that the author dodged write , writing it, but as a process and fragments. It concerns us, mostly, discussing Navegação de cabotagem focusing on critical, literary and socio-historical issues and/or formulations, involving the artistic, intellectual and political trajectory of the author Jorge Amado.