No cipoal da selva: relatos dos ervais e dos seringais em Selva trágica e A Selva

Abstract

This dissertation aims to the reading and comparative analyze of the narratives of Selva trágica (1959) and A selva (1930), by sul-mato-grossense writer Hernâni Donato and by luso-brazilian writer Ferreira de Castro, respectively. The main objective of the work is to focus the tematology‟s aspect, reflected in the discursivization over the “jungle”, as relates presents in both the novels of the corpus of analyze, whose operationalization search through the comparative literature‟s practice, to highlight similarity and difference in the artistic projects of these writers. Thus the work search to contemplate an approach focused to the literary studies and cultural on context Latin American: while Selva trágica reflect a important period of the Literary Historiography, or of the Mate Herb Cycle in extreme South of the state of Mato Grasso do Sul, borderland with the Paraguay, A selva represent a hostile period which cicatrized the extraction of the Amazonian rubber plantation, known as “green hell” of the Brazilian literature. Thus, both our work as the rich bibliography consulted justify the propose of study, is by the approximation of distant novels in time and space, relevant testimonies of a literary production situated in the “border”, indispensable in the evaluation of the Brazilian literature and of the subcontinent, and especially by its character of relate of retaliation and denunciation in Romanesque sagas still recent in our cultural history.