A perspectiva de Carlos de Melo como um dos narradores da mega-narrativa do ciclo da cana-de-açúcar de José Lins do Rego.

Abstract

The present work aims at showing the alterations of the narrator-protagonist’s focalization, in José Lins do Rego’s novels denominated “Carlos de Melo’s trilogy”, and integrate the sugarcane cycle meganarrative. To accomplish this study, narrative categories such as character, narrator and perspective were used as a support as well as a critical reading which goes from Menino de Engenho to Banguê, passing by Doidinho, such a reading seeks for accompanying the narrating and “perceiving” acts. We intend to point out that as the protagonist sprouts up, his views on particular subjects evolve, without being necessarily a positive evolution. Time is one of the reasons for such an evolution, for, as a child, Carlinhos sees aspects of the reality in a way, and as an adult his perception of the same matter sensitively changes. Parallel to this evolution of “perceiving”, occurs the protagonist’s perception, an actionless and oscillatory being characterized by a devastating pessimism. We conclude that the perspective changes as the events do, as well as paths and places ran by the narrator-protagonist: if Santa Rosa transforms itself, it mainly changes the protagonist’s concept about Santa Rosa and the place where he lived during his entire childhood and part of his adolescence.