O projeto literário de Dalcídio Jurandir: a relação autor e obra

Abstract

This work examines the configuration of Dalcídio Jurandir's (1909-1979) literary project. Three aspects can be highlighted in the author's novelistic production: the modern coming-of-age novel, the realist novel, and the socialist realist novel, which are characterized by poetic language and narrative complexity, by the detailed description of the social and psychological environment, and by the importance of school education and education for the world. This last point, that of education, evokes an inherent connection between the trajectory of the characters in the novels and the life of the politically engaged author himself. The three aspects are exemplified especially in three novels: Chove nos campos de Cachoeira (1941), Marajó (1947), and Linha do Parque (1959). When approaching the literary project and the author’s image, it is necessary, firstly, to analyze the critical reception from the first publication to specialized academic criticism and, secondly, to compare it with the narratological approach and the identification and analysis of the “levels of communication and instances of the narrative work” (Schmid, 2014, p. 46). The concepts “concrete author” and “abstract author” (Schmid, 2014, p. 47-65) represent a dialectical connection between the author’s biography, his statements about literary production (“concrete author”) and the perception and “creation” of Dalcídio by critics (“abstract author”). The issue of education indicates a strong link between the author Dalcídio and the main characters in the corpus of this study (Alfredo, Missunga, Iglezias) and significantly denotes his literary project.