The peasant and the prosecutor of the poor: Barren Lives

Authors

  • Ana Paula Pacheco Universidade de São Paulo USP, São Paulo, SP

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-901X.v0i60p34-54

Keywords:

Graciliano Ramos, Barren lives, the poor in the literature, representations of the intellectual.

Abstract

The experimental character in Graciliano Ramos’ novel, Barren Lives, allows the apprehension of the social fracture considering the contradictions between the narrator-intellectual and the stream of consciousness of a peasant family, driven away by the drought. Labor itself comes to the fore, in a context in which the local oligarchies see their own downfall (the coffee crises of 1929), a patriarchal national-populism arises (the Getulio Vargas’ era), and a critical imagination takes place.

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Author Biography

  • Ana Paula Pacheco, Universidade de São Paulo USP, São Paulo, SP
    Ana Paula Pacheco professora Dra. do Departamento de Teoria Literária e Literatura Comparada – USP. Sobre Guimarães Rosa, publicou o livro Lugar do mito: narrativa e processo social nas Primeiras estórias de João Guimarães Rosa (São Paulo, Nankin Editorial, 2006). É também autora do livro de contos A casa deles (São Paulo, Nankin Editorial, 2009).

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Published

2015-05-04

Issue

No. 60 (2015)

Section

Articles

License

 

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How to Cite

Pacheco, A. P. (2015). The peasant and the prosecutor of the poor: Barren Lives. Revista Do Instituto De Estudos Brasileiros, 60, 34-54. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-901X.v0i60p34-54