Hélio Serejo: a fábula do erval na literatura sul-mato-grossense

Abstract

This work aims to formulate a critical-cultural analysis of Hélio Serejo's work, the regionalist writer from Mato Grosso do Sul at the border Brazil-Paraguay, based on the recent publication of Obras completas de Hélio Serejo (2008) (Hélio Serejo's complete works), in nine volumes. It proposes a critical-comparative reading contrasting the more than sixty works of the Author, seeking the own writer's enunciation locus, simultaneously to the diversity and wealth of the of discursivization loci, entangled by regionalism and creolism that characterizes a cultural “ground” and / or specific ethos, translated in an orality that happens on the “ground” of a particular cultural area, the frontier “place” of the writer. Thus, starting from the analysis corpus, it looks for an appreciation of representative texts and books as Pelas orilhas da fronteira (1981) (Through the orilhas of the border), some unpublished ones as Fiapos de regionalismos (2004) (Regionalism Shreds), emblematic in Hélio Serejo's production.