O capítulo 19 de São Bernardo: fusão, transfusão, confusão

Abstract

This study seeks to observe, in critical terms, the traces of the deforming realism in São Bernardo, by Graciliano Ramos. Therefore, this essay centers itself in the analysis of a fragment: the 19th chapter. As a nucleus of the tensions that characterize the novel, this excerpt holds in its form the dramatic movement between matter and subject by a distorted perspective. In its progression, the chapter apprehends the synthesis of the entire plot in three casts: a perplexity in the enunciation of experiences; a shuffle of time in the states of delirium; an inescapable return to the dark present.