Vida agreste : memória e regionalidade em São Bernardo

Abstract

This work discusses the memory performance and its implications in questions of identity, society and specially in regionality´s constitution in the work São Bernardo, by Graciliano Ramos, by analysis of first person text attributed to its protagonist and narrator, Paulo Honório as well as book´s and author´s literary criticism analysis. It approaches also the themes of region and regionality, through theoretical discussions and analysis of work and preexisting critical texts. The study is divided into four chapters: the first focuses on aspects of memory in São Bernardo; the second deals with the vision of society offered by the text; the third, the question of social identity and, finally, we discuss aspects of regionality and region.