Uma "Arquitetura de sonho e permanência": a representação da decadência oligárquica em crônica da casa assassinada

Abstract

n this dissertation we search to establish a relation between History and Literature by the intermediate of the psychological novel Crônica da casa assassinada (1959), of the Brazilian writer (specifically from the state of Minas Gerais) Lúcio Cardoso. Starting from this work, we investigate some aspects related to the decadence of the rural oligarchies of Minas Gerais, from the decade of 1930 and on. The path followed by the rural oligarchies, from the apogee to the decay of the economical, political and social systems is explained considering some objective and subjective aspects that have permeated the relation between these subjects. Consequently, we search, through the novel, an interpretation of the Brazilian History in a determinate period. At the same time, through the characters, we settle an interpretation by the point of view of a more psychological analysis. We started by the supposition that from a fictional narrative it is possible to establish nexus with the social reality. We pick up from the novel typologies of world configuration that we connect with the reality of the man and his existence with the author’s intention of representing characters that have searched, through the inner sounding, recreate the environment of instability where they lived. These characters are seen as a representation of a universality at the same time that the writer, in an intentional way or not, transpose to his work his vision of the elements that have composed the social reality