O local e o universal: Dona Guidinha do Poço e Madame Bovary e a perspectiva formativa da literatura brasileira

Abstract

In literary studies, the relationships established from oppositions as local and universal, peripheral and central, regional and national are complex. In general, such differences are demarcated from the political and economic correlations. In this paper, in contrast are two very different novels in literary fame: Dona Guidinha do Poço, by Manuel de Oliveira Paiva, and Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert. Within the formative perspective, we question the centrality of development on the coast of Brazil, valuing the place of sertão (hinterland) in the History and in the literature. The similarities and differences between the novels had in its theoretical scope the concept of critical thresholds.