Os sertões infinitos da estética hiper-regional de João Guimarães Rosa e Ariano Suassuna

Abstract

The “Sertão” imagery condenses the actual construction of the identity of the Northeast, in the view of most of the Southern population (ie, the South and the Southeast) of Brazil, homogenizing the various cultural hetereogeineic references of the Northeast. That is why, throughout the Brazilian literary construction, this space will always be taken into various aesthetics in stereotyped nuances. Thus, according to the above mentioned, this paper aims to resolve this jaundiced view around the Northeast (and the Northeast itself) through a reconfiguration of universal identity and cultural space that became known as the “Sertão” which turned to be the synthesis of this Brazilian region. The reconfiguration of universal space was observed from an original artistic aesthetic, herein called as hyper regional, observed from a comparative study of the novels "Grande sertão: veredas" (“The devil to pay in the backlands", 1963) by João Guimarães Rosa and "Romance d’A Pedra do Reino e o Príncipe do Sangue do Vai-e-Volta” by Ariano Vilar Suassuna. For this purpose, we start from the essay “Literatura e Subdesenvolvimento" ("Literature and Underdevelopment") by Antonio Cândido, which draws a line in the historical transformations of regional aesthetic reasons in an ideological-economic view of each literary period from Brazilian Romanticism (XIX century). However, while one utilizes several theoretical lines to trace this new aesthetic, the baseline of this analysis is, essentially, in Bakhtin (1998, 2003, 2008, 2009) where leaning over the category of the narrator and its discourse (in the hyper-regional aesthetic), observe the intense hybridity of the novel form. To explain this intense form of dilution, one established two review processes that we call narrative and swirling effect matrioshka (explained in the central chapters of the thesis). Finally, Corning to the analysis of the "chronotope" of the Hinterland (cronotopia main aesthetic hyper-regional cronotopos that articulates the "Autobiographical Romance" and "Romance of Chivalry" mentioned by Bakhtin in his book "Issues of literature and aesthetics: Theory of the Novel, "1998) will achieve the concept of identity of the "dynamic rooting " proposed by Michel Maffesoli.