A metalinguagem na construção da narrativa em São Bernardo e Vidas secas: uma reflexão estética e ideológica

Abstract

The transition from the 20 s to the 30 s in the Brazilian Modernism is much studied by critics. On one hand, it is defended the idea that both decades belong to the same movement, with different perspectives. On the other hand, it is thought that the two decades are distinct literary movements. To João Luiz Lafetá, the generation of the 20 s and the 30 s are part of the same movement, however, there is a distinction between them: the generation of the 20 s was characterized by an emphasis on an "aesthetic project" in which the work with language and its form predominated, and the generation of the 30 s, by a prominence of an "ideological project" which prioritized a social discussion. Luís Bueno supports the idea that the literature produced in these two decades behaved in very different ways, and that they are not part of the same literary moment, despite of his recognition on the value of the generation of the 20 s to the subsequent one. In this work, it will be seen how in Graciliano Ramos opus these two projects that Lafetá proposes are inseparable, especially if it is considered the author s work with metalanguage, understood as a process present in all acts of consciousness, as Harald Weinrich defends. It will be observed in São Bernardo and Vidas secas how the the narrators and characters metalinguistic reflection show the work with language, aesthetically and ideologically