PAULINO, José Kelson Justino.; SOUSA, Elri Bandeira de.
Résumé:
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.