O contexto da seca e o não retirante na obra São Bernardo de Graciliano Ramos: uma análise do personagem Paulo Honório

Abstract

The work São Bernardo ([1934] 1997), by Graciliano Ramos (1892-1953), is the object of study of this dissertation. It is a provocative novel with many images of the Brazilian Northeastern Sertão: man, space and movement, in particular. The general objective of the research is to analyze the memories of Paulo Honório, as well as the other characters, and how this happened in the construction of the narrative. As for the specific objectives, we tried to understand the Sertão, the drought and the countryside; clarify the profile and character of Paulo Honório, based on the memories he has of himself and others; explain the permanence of man in the Sertão, in the midst of so many adversities. This is a bibliographical research, based on dialogic studies between Literature and Memory, demonstrating how droughts were present in the life of the Northeastern people and that, as a result of it, migration to other locations has become something necessary for survival. This forced movement was called 5withdrawal6 and those who experienced it, 5withdrawals6. As a theoretical basis, we count on Beatriz Sarlo (2007); J. Castro (1984); José Clemente Pozenato (1974); José Gomes Ferreira et al (2020); Hermenegildo Bastos (1998); Maurice Halbwachs (2006); Paul Ricoeur (2007); among many others. This research is relevant and innovative because it brings to light a situation experienced by many northeasterners, but little portrayed in the records in general, which is the bravery and permanence of man in his habitat, the northeastern who decided not to withdraw, the non-removing man