Literatura e história : narrativas de opressão e silêncio em Cyro Martins.

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes the relationships between Literature and History, with a focus on analysis of the female characters of the novel “Gaúcho a pé” trilogy, consisting of “Sem Rumo”, “Porteira Fechada” and “Estrada Nova”, written by the author and psychoanalyst gaúcho Cyro Martins. In this study, we believe that the author's literary narrative consists in an interweave between the creative imagination and the facts experienced by him. This results in a historical-literary knowledge that facilitates the process of self-knowledge of man as well as the understanding of the society in which he is inserted in. We use then studies about Literature and History from various researchers, among them: Barthes, Kundera, Forster, Henry James, Antonio Cândido, Todorov, Tacca, Hayden White, Sandra Jatahi Pesavento, Paul Veyne and others. From these theoretical assumptions we proceeded the analyzes of three the author's works published between 1937 and 1954. We look at the history of Rio Grande do Sul present in the trilogy to understand the history of Rio Grande do Sul’s women of the decades focused on the books. We used fictional literature to better understand the social and cultural questions present in mentality and Rio Grande society structures. In addition, we sought to emphasizes the literary features in the novels written by Cyro Martins.