Pedra bonita and cangaceiros narrator settings

Abstract

José Lins do Rego published Pedra Bonita and Cangaceiros in 1938 and 1953, respectively. Set at different moments in the history of Brazilian literature and the country's economic development, the novels have significant aesthetic differences, even if one is a continuation of the other in thematic terms. One of these differences, although it also constitutes a continuity in its own way, is the configuration of the narrator: Cangaceiros radicalizes the discretion and almost disappearance of the narrative voice. This article intends to reflect on these and other characters of the voices that narrate this story. The method of sociological interpretation, practiced, for example, by Antonio Candido. guides this interpretation of the novels. In the end, we propose the understanding that the narrative voice is erased by the material forces and conditions that involve the logic of the semi-feudal economic structure practiced in the Northeast between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. In this sense, the Regian novel internalizes, in its structure, the current social structure.