A face da seca: um olhar através a literatura sobre o aspecto social da seca

Abstract

This paper aims at analyzing the drought in northeastern of Brazil as the central character, having as object of study the book Ataliba, o vaqueiro, by Francisco Gil CasteloBranco. We wanted to understand the real destructive power of drought, considering it not as the main cause of desolation, but as an instrument "trigger" of larger social problems. The book used is one of the precursors of the regionalist novel and its main theme is the drought, therefore, the main assumption of the study assumes that the drought has many faces and that while it is strong and the great character of the work, it is not as dangerous as the absence of governors. To carry out this paper, it was used as a theoretical basis: Reis (1999), Bosi (2012), Coutinho (2004), Candido (2009) among others. Finally, this paper results from a study that analyzed not only the presence of elements in the book as well as the absence, which revealed that while drought is a cruel antagonist in the lives of the people and the northeastern nature, the failure of governors and the absence of investments is the principal cause of social desolation.