Humanismo e realismo nos romances brasileiros pós-64: um estudo dialético sobre forma artística e materialidade histórica

Abstract

This thesis seeks to analyze the novels Pessach: a travessia (1967), by Carlos Heitor Cony; Os que bebem como os cães (1975), by Assis Brasil and Tropical sol da Liberdade (1988), by Ana Maria Machado under the possibility of a realistic reading, without failing to emphasize the characteristic of humanism, in an attempt to confront experimentalist and irrationalists that critics commonly attribute as fundamental characteristics of the set of Brazilian novels produced in the post-64 period. What is intended is the discussion of a decisive literary and philosophical-social positioning of post-64 Brazilian novelistic production, through the immanent analysis of narrative texts, as well as the confrontation of different critical perspectives that were consolidated forming an ordering plan of studies who have dedicated themselves to post-64 novels, representing the way in which this production tends to be read and interpreted. Using the historical-systematic method of György Lukács and dialoguing with the critical bases already formulated by Janete Gaspar Machado (1981) and Antonio Candido (1987), the intention is to recognize that in Pesach: a travessia; Os que bebem como os cães and Tropical Sol da Liberdade portray the deepest impasses of the Brazilian military dictatorship of 1964 and that, through realistic criticism of this regime, these novels reveal the important reality of its historical moments, constituting a realism critical as true as life.