Sobre O tronco, romance de Bernardo Élis

• Autor(a) principal: Marchezan, Luiz Gonzaga [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Souza, Eunice Prudenciano de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://cptl.ufms.br/manager/titan.php?target=openFile&fileId=871; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/124936
• topic: Brazilian Literature; Regionalism; Argument; Literary narrative; Literatura brasileira; Regionalismo; Argumentação; Narrativa literária

The conception of O tronco was influenced by Hegel´s ideas. The genesis of this novel is in Bernardo Élis’ purpose of writing a monograph on land ownership conflicts in Goiás, later transformed into a new project, the novel O tronco. The same ideological position of the author gives the argumentative direction of the novel; his ideological background determines the choice of the theme, associated with images expanded by the procedures of argumentation that permeate the literary discourse. Thus, in face of the undeniable aesthetic value of Élis´work, we analyzed O tronco, specifically the argumentation that guides the literary narrative, enhanced by the artistic treatment of violence, its theme, as the result of the struggle for power. The novel was published in 1956; the author, heir to the literary regionalism of the 30s, through an artistic and calculated combination of the story of a local government and literature, accuses, judges the exacerbated domination of a particular social group in a region in Goiás.