O périplo da formação de Berardo Viola e de Franz Biberkopf: um estudo do Bildungsroman em Fontamara, de Ignazio Silone, e em Berlin Alexanderplatz, de Alfred Döblin

Abstract

This research studies Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929), of Alfred Döblin, and Fontamara, of Ignazio Silone, based on new conceptions of the Bildungsroman, or novel of formation, established by the looks updaters theorists of the twentieth century. The Bildungsroman, the narrative form that emerged in the eighteenth century, whose work paradigm is Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795-1976) , of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, emphasizes human development, the process of maturity and awareness along the path of existencial character. The corpora of this work are novels written in the interwar period conflicted, whose plot highlights the struggle within and outside of the characters to survive that period and the consequent awareness gained in this way. The metaphorical journey experienced by the protagonists of Fontamara, Berardo Viola, and Berlin Alexanderplatz, Franz Biberkopf, leads a new political consciousness for the first protagonist, and a new social conscience, for the second. The path of formation oh the protagonist is constituted differently. The aim of this study is there fore to analyze how is the process of forming Berardo Viola and Franz Biberkopf, pointing identities and diferences between the two processes and finally pointing out how such novels can update the concept of Bildungsroman in literary history