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FRANCISCO J.C. DANTAS E A CONDIÇÃO DRAMÁTICA DO NORDESTINO

2013; Volume: 14; Issue: 27 Linguagem: Inglês

1981-4755

Fabiana Francisco Tibério,

Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies

Francisco J. C. Dantas, a novelist from Sergipe in Brazil, is seen as the responsible for resurrecting the regionalism in the Brazilian literary scenery. His novels glimpse narrators who see the world always by the bias of bitterness and hopelessness. It is evident in the characters the pessimism and disenchantment. This work aims to present the dramatic condition of the northeastern people alive in Francisco J. C. Dantas. Therefore, it will be analyzed the narrators of both author's first novels: Coivara da Memoria and Os Desvalidos.