A tradição oral e o aparecimento da ficção

Abstract

Engaging with an issue raised by Antonio Candido in Formação da literatura brasileira — the difficulty writers had to develop an appropriate style in order to represent the customs of the communities from the interior of the country, including the regional dialects that deviate from standard Portuguese —, this article aims to discuss some of the strategies adopted by Bernardo Guimarães so as to incorporate the oral tradition in the novel, a genre associated with the world of print and intended for the urban reading public.