Por essas estradas o homem voa nas asas de sua fantasia: História e ficção em Chegou o governador, de Bernardo Élis
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2011-08-15
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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In this work, I intend to analyze how the poet, the short story writer and the novelist Bernardo
Élis makes use of the History of Goiás in order to rebuild, trough fiction, the economic,
political and social scenery of this place, in the beginner of nineteenth century. In his novel
Chegou o Governador, published in 1987, the author esthetically presents a realm that drives
the reader to a specific historical period of Goiás which are the years between 1804 and 1809.
These years correspond to the events of the arrival and departure of D. Francisco de Assis
Mascarenhas, a distinguished political character of the Portuguese colonial company, who
masterfully led the captaincy of Goiás during these years, according to the local
historiography which were considered by Bernardo Élis in his novel. It can be observed the
novel establishes an explicit dialogue to the historical studies, that is why, in this research we
have proposed, it was necessary to analyze the historiographical records that have mapped the
central regions of Brazil during the nineteenth century, moreover, to find the notes that were
responsible to notice the events of Goiás during the beginning of the nineteenth century. For
that reason, the first step I have taken was to take notes about what the History could tell.
After that, it was necessary and approach on the amount of Bernardo Élis‟s works, all of them
published in a period of more than four decades, in order to perceive the novelist‟s line of
thought, related to the social and historical representation. This step let us explore another
frequent discussion, the border limit between Literature and History through the reflection
done by scholars and important representatives of both fields of knowledge. After that, the
research focuses the discussion of the novel as the structure of artistic creation which gets
closer to the problematized social events. It is known that this plural narrative has the
History‟s features in its foundation and it is able to make use of this feature as the helm to the
fictional work. When we bring out these questions, we are in the main purpose of this
research: understanding in which theoretical base the Bernardo Élis‟ novel is established,
whether in the principles of classic historical novel, theorized by Georg Lukács (1966), or in
the operating modes of the new historical novel, discussed by Fernando Ainsa (1991), or if the
novel moves among the both models, and if it does, how it happens. Finally, Chegou o
governador is analytically seen in the bases of the theoretical principle mentioned. It is
possible to verify how Bernardo Élis made use of the history of his people to illustrate it and
problematize it through fiction getting a broader and more complex sense of the events that
could demonstrate the local historical movement. By doing this, Élis complies with what we
believe is the artist's role: show what is not said, sharpening the critical awareness of the
reader about the controversial and contradictory progress of the History.
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SILVA, Rogério Max Canedo. Through these roads the man flies in the wings of his fantasy:
history and fiction in Chegou o Governador, by Bernardo Élis. 2011. 210 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Lingüística, Letras e Artes) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2011.