História e alegoria em São Bernardo de Graciliano Ramos / History and allegory in São Bernardoby Graciliano Ramos

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

This work proposes an alternative reading of Graciliano RamosSão Bernardo. In the critical legacy on this authors work there is as yet no consensus to whether or not the revolution which breaks soon after Madalenas death is the Revolution of 1930 and, more important than this, to what function does this revolution have in the romances economy. In the perspective here considered, the books theme is the Revolution of 1930, allegorically articulated to the fictional facts, in which Paulo Honório, industrialist coronel of the 1920s, struggles against the ongoing revolutionary movement. Paulo Honório, hence, doesnt regret, and the romance loses its connotations of confession: who writes the "confessional" chapters is actually Gondim, they are the two lost and purged chapters. Paulo Honório is no longer seen here as a self-made-man, but as a politically structured being, integrating a party that defends the exporting model, based on the monoculture of coffee. Therefore, the romance suggests to the reader a very comprehensive politicoeconomical view of the revolutionary period of 1930-32 and the facts that preceded it. Finally, this reading here advanced draws us to propose, as a very distinct view of literature, that the basis of Gracilianos thought is economical and that literature is, in the last analysis, a privileged means for cognitive knowledge of history.

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allegory; graciliano ramos; são bernardo; "cangaço"; "coronel" alegoria cangaço; coronelismo; graciliano ramos; são bernardo

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