Images and words in tortuous memory fabric: Fazenda Modelo: novela pecuária in times of military coup

Abstract

This article proposes a reading of Fazenda Modelo: novela pecuária (Model Farm: rural novel), published in 1974 by Chico Buarque. The context of its publication --- the period of civil-military dictatorship in Brazil --- is considered an imperative fact for a narrative whose text was written allegorically in order to report the state of exception which the country was under. Therefore, this article focuses on discursive strategies based on irony and parody, in the stages of composing said narrative which, in turn, writes itself as a recollection of a time that cannot be forgotten.