O realismo maravilhoso no romance sombras de reis barbudos: formas de silenciamento e de opressão em tempos de ditadura militar

Abstract

In Brazil, realism wonderful undershoots likewise status the to Latin American countries. Even so, literary criticism recognizes the importance of Brazilian writer José J. Veiga one the greatest representatives of the genre. Among the author's works, we selected for this mono graphic work the novel Sombras de reis Barbados (1972), published during the military dictatorship. In this work, the manifestation of Wonderful Realism is converted into absurd situations that collaborated to the emergence of a violent and oppressive atmosphere, which develops from a coup instituted in the small and fictional city called Taitara. Our objective is to analyze the unusual elements as possible allegorical elements that can be related to the Brazilian dictatorial historical context, which began in 1964. The methodology of this project is centered on bibliographical research and, concerning the research that had focused to investigate how censorship operated during the dictatorial period, we consulted the studies of researchers Sandra Reimão (2011) and Regina Dalcastagnè (1996-2001). Concerning the theorists cited to conceptualize wonderful Realism, we resorted to texts by Irlemar Chiampi (1980), Alejo Carpentier (1985), Maria Eugènia Pereira (2005), and David Roas (2014). To better understand the characteristics of José J Veiga's literature, we turned to researchers Gregório Dantas (2002),Anderson Pires (2016), Leonice Carvalho (2017), and Eleone Assis (2014). After the analysis, we identified that the space created by the author contributes to a Real wonderful sphere characterized by oppression, which dialogues with the dictatorial context. For example, the walls erected in the city are a symbol that causes division, isolation, oppression, and fear. In addition, we observe that the invasion and acceptance of the vultures that watch over the village maintain the Real wonderful content, other identified marks present in the novel refer more clearly to the military coup, for example the establishment of a coup, the tortures, and the censorship.