Percepções sobre a morte na obra "Morte e vida Severina", de João Cabral de Melo Neto

Abstract

This study aims to understand the perceptions that the characters of the book "Death and Severina Life" have death. The work, one of the most important of the known poet João Cabral de Melo Neto, covers the journey of migrant in search of better living conditions. On their way, the main character, Severino, crossing the state of Pernambuco, is finding new people and environments, while perceiving death at every stop. It is through these encounters with death that the character reflects the human condition and society in which it operates. The difficulties that migrants pass on their migration, their relationship with the land, the work that is, beyond discrimination and neglect of their condition are some of the aspects that run through this character's relationship with death and mark the vision that has Severino the world. It is from these considerations, we propose to understand death, within that reality. Reality by the fact that, although described in a literary and poetic, the literature expresses a whole social situation. The author speaks of a place and a point within society and sets his story within the observations and reflections on what makes the medium. Realizing this relationship between literature and society, and seek to understand the work within the specific social reality in which it makes sense, man's relationship with his finitude.