Vozes entretecidas-narrativas de Mia Couto e Guimarães Rosa em diálogo

Abstract

This article aims at establishing a dialogue between the Brazilian and the African literatures, represented, respectively, by Guimarães Rosa, from Minas Gerais, and Mia Couto, from Mozambique. It starts from the premise that a remarkable literary identity can be detected in the work of those two great writers of literatures in Portuguese, in what concerns language. However, the transgression of the linguistic code in favour of a creative force towards a stronger expressiveness and wider scope of the sense, the emphasis on orality, and the thematic approach in search of rescuing a humanity, as places of intersection between Guimarães Rosa’s and Mia Couto’s literatures, would be no more than a starting point for a comparison. Even though the search for the mysteries and findings of language is, in fact, the burning sparkle with which the literature of both writers takes momentum, this meeting place is also a point from which each one takes his tion was a comparison of the issue of the narrator in both authors, analysing texts with a certain similarity in what concerns theme or diction.