"Gota de orvalho, na coroa dum lírio: jóia do tempo" - Erico Verissimo: trajetória, obra e questões de gênero

Abstract

This thesis is focused on Erico Verissimo s work, Time and the Wind, and on the analysis of gender issues present in the first volume of this book entitled The Continent. This literary work is an important source of research on an era and its society as well as on understanding the process of building a novel and the writer's role in society. Its importance lies in its gathering of readings made by Erico on the Rio-Grandense past. The time frame of this study covers the period in which Erico wrote and published its novel, 1947 and 1962, as well as the narrative s time, from 1745 until 1895. From a gender perspective we can examine how characters were build. Gender studies enabled the historian to observe societies from different times from angles not previously imagined, causing the characters to gain new social outlines. The emergence of other stories, besides the possibility of new subjects and objects, forms of analysis, methodologies and different styles for the researcher contributed to the choice of the epic narrative, because of its ability to articulate the features of a temporal experience. The paper was constructed in two phases: the first part discusses the process of writing the book, the interferences from reality lived in the novel, the urge to build an identity for men and women of Rio-Grande; the second part is about analysing gender relations of the novel, the social role that men and women played in the group and gender relations that were established in the social dynamics