As mães e seus filhos (Uma leitura d´O Tempo e o Vento, de Erico Verissimo)

Abstract

This work is an interpretation about the relationships between mothers and sons made by Erico Verissimo to his book ´O tempo e o vento`. It takes as a parameter the female characters Ana Terra, Bibiana Cambará, Luzia Silva, Maria Valéria and Ismália Caré, and the male characters Pedro Terra, Bolívar, Licurgo and Rodrigo. It intends to check how these relationships lead the male characters and think about the literary meaning in the historical context projected on the text. The five women studied have a founder importance to the building of the patriarchal society imagined by the author and they are the basic characters of the text.