O pássaro que dorme

Abstract

The present course completion work is presented in a feature-length fiction form, having a story based on real facts occurred during a war between families in the Pernambuco’s hinterland in the 1990s. The work has a biographical character and uses dramatic, documentary and metalinguistic resources in a narrative that combines the suspense genres, action and psychological fiction. The research for the development of this work was realized through letters, newspapers, newspapers library, personal archives, scientific articles, official documents and documents from residents of a city called Belém do São Francisco in Pernambuco’s states, also using oral reports from local researchers and family members of the author. Bird that sleeps, we are introduced to the character Emanuel, a film student with a dissocial personality disorder who is trying to complete his coursework while facing traumas from his past. Thus, one of the ways to write stories and cases of a preexisting daily life is to poetize or dramatize through an autobiographical fictionalization.