Ponto de fuga tempo, fome, fala e poder em Vidas Secas e São Bernardo

Abstract

The books by Graciliano Ramos (1892-1953) form a rich and varied subject for researching History, heading for the relation with the literary source. In this work, I focus on the interior of the northeast of Brazil depicted by that writer, starting from two of his novels – in fact, his masterpieces – “São Bernardo” (1934) and “Barren Lives” (1938), in order to analyse questions about the conflict between Graciliano Ramos and social transformations which embrace him, the registration by him on his own action as a committed man of letters and, finally, the power which accompanies the knowledge and the contact with the literary production – this weapon, the writing. In this way, this work is divided in chapters which deal with this subjects: time, hunger and speech, trying to understand the literary register on reality of northeastern interior of Brazil in the thirties last century.