“A Realidade Salta a Ficção”: a identidade e o caminho do sertanejo em Vidas Secas, Morte e Vida Severina e A Hora da Estrela

Abstract

For many years, literature portrays the path taken by the man from the arid hinterland towards the town in search of better conditions and a life away from the woes of drought. Like the historians, Brazilian writers represented in their pages a reflection, the representation of the world through a recurring character: the countryman. The objective of this text is to show how this role is presented in literary works such as “Vidas Secas”, by Graciliano Ramos, “Morte e Vida Severina”, by João Cabral de Melo Neto, and “A Hora da Estrela”, by Clarice Lispector, and how these writers present the social inequality that excludes the countryman from its formation to current days.