As fronteiras entre ficção e história em Um castelo no pampa, de Assis Brasil : o sujeito histórico e a presença feminina.

Abstract

This study aims to understand the way relations between Fiction and History took place, as well as the woman’s role, in Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil’s novel Um castelo no pampa. The novel is composed by three volumes: Perversas famílias, Pedra da Memória and Os Senhores do Século. The research makes use of a hermeneutic perspective that focuses on understanding the fiction work as the interpretation of a given historical context that comprehends people with factual existence, besides events and happenings, either real or created. Assis Brasil series is centered in the late 19th century time recovering through the work Perversas Famílias, as well as the period since the Establishment of the Republic at the end of the Revolution in1923, in Pedra da Memória. Finally, after the 1923 Revolution, the characters go through the 1930 Revolution and remain until Jango’s government, ending by the 1964 Revolution, with Os Senhores do Século. Plus some questions about hermeneutic, the work brings data on the theoretical view from some of the main names in Fiction and History, such as Linda Hutcheon, Hayden White and Gérard Genette. In order to establish the relations between Fiction and History in Assis Brasil’s work, firstly a research on the portrayed historical facts took place, from the period just before the Establishment of the Republic to the 1923 Revolution, once that was the period in which Rio Grande do Sul State had a major role in the revolutions. After interpreting the novel, it could be realized that Fiction embraces History in an ironic way. Finally, the work presents an interpretation of the female universe in the novel, relating it to the patriarchal context of Rio Grande do Sul State.