A manifestação do mítico em “O Continente I”: da construção da narrativa à caracterização das personagens

Abstract

Erico Verissimo was defined as a storyteller, one of the most popular writers of the twentieth century. Narrated in The Continent I, south of Rio Grande saga, not because he liked the literary regionalism, but seek to unravel the presence of an inner life in those inhabitants of the campaign. The author came to believe that those rough men were devoid of any psychological complexity, and that, to recreate two hundred years of history, these men become heroic characters. Based on the way that Erico Verissimo writes and is the saga Weather and Wind, this article takes as its point of research the main theme that will delimit the characteristics of men and their behavior within the narrative, leading the study of the Continent I of its construction, and its main characters, in the light of mythology. The analysis is reasoning the form used by Erico Verissimo the construction of the saga and the role of characters, blending history and fiction. Thus, as a literary matter, its mythical character offers a range of possibilities for analysis, especially the overlap between history and literature. This analysis has as main objective to identify the existence of a relationship between regional and universal mythology on the novel by Erico Verissimo, identifying the times when the historical narrative and mythological establish a dialogical character, thus leading to observation of possible features and objects make reference to the main characters of The Continent I with the mythical universe. The understanding of myth in society is not only realize a stage in the history of human thought, but understand that nowadays they are attached, and identify at what point the demonstrations, considered by some as exaggerations, should be recognized as human phenomena, because only when it considers such conduct under the historical-religious perspective is that such forms may prove to be phenomena of culture.