Da alegria e da angústia de diluir fronteiras: o Sertão de Guimarães Rosa e as narrativas de formação nacional.

Abstract

The interrelationship between literature and history gain strength in the wake of the twentieth century to century, with discussion on the possibilities of bringing these disciplines acquired breath and centrality, and the way we do science, typical of the nineteenth century with his lust for method and the absolute truth, crumbles due to the emergence of new approaches to real-which take into consideration the interface with other areas of knowledge in order to access various approaches to the real. Narrative among others, the story distinguishes itself, however, specifies the relationship it has with the truth, as she has, in fact, the claim to refer to a past that actually existed. What then can, thereafter, to differentiate the plot historical novel and the plot? To the horror of those who conceive science as a place of certainty, this text reflects on the tensions surrounding the historical narrative and the eternal lure of the exercise of creative writing about those who lapidam the writing of history. As such, literary history and literary creation in this cross, sharing the paths imagery of João Guimarães Rosa. The author's stories have mining as one of its narrative elements more prominent presence in space. It is from this perspective present in the narratives I propose to analyze the work, focusing on the ambivalence between the urban and rural spaces (interior), and its importance to the construction work while reading the narrative about the formation of Brazil. For this reading will be privileged social and historical aspects that the book presents not only the novel as well as the act of his writing. The presence of space in the novel, especially in your relationship ambivalence between urban and rural, may indicate that the crossings of the hinterland rosianos characters make up a kind of portrait of Brazil, in the process of its formation and the national constitution. From the narratives deployed - two tales from the book Sagarana (1946) and two passages of the novel Great point Hinterland: Footpaths (1956) - proceed to a comparative reading in order to understand how the narrative establishes Rosa, consciously or unconsciously, with parallel the so-called "Brazilian social thought," assuming some of its characteristics when representations of the enunciation of values about the wilderness and its people, the wilderness as a metaphor of the nation on course of establishment of modern values on home soil. In any case, as in both Sagarana Grande Sertão: Veredas many aspects of the representation of space and its characters move away, which does not imply that this occurs unilaterally, as in other issues - or a fundamental issue - the narratives touch , revolve about an axis: deal with Brazil. The work of Rosa draws a movement that articulates to a greater or lesser degree, the human and geographical reality of the interior with the great issues of the debate over the nation. Representation of Brazil would be the passage of space between characters and imaginary backcountry on the formation of community conceived as national.