A life in which the future is narrated as a past gift

childhood memorialist horizon of Moacyr Scliar

Abstract

This article intends to highlight some relations of the social, political and cultural context of Brazil in general, and of Rio Grande do Sul State in particular, with some biographical episodes of the writer Moacyr Scliar, especially of his childhood and beginning of adolescence. In fact, this article also aims to highlight the trajectory of the writer's friends and relatives in the multicultural context of the Ashkenazi ethnic community in which he was raised, and the possible relationship between this experience and the future choice of the Jewish theme present in several of his works, but without intending to mechanically transfer this memorial horizon to the fictional world of Scliar. Since, according to our interpretation, the complexity and importance of the writer’s production goes beyond the space of Bom Fim neighborhood, Porto Alegre city and even Brazil, acquiring a universal character in the larger context of Jewish culture.