A NARRATED HISTORY: PEOPLE AND ANTHROPOPHAGY IN VIVA O POVO BRASILEIRO, BY JOÃO UBALDO RIBEIRO

Abstract

This paper its an attempt to analyze the form ‘historical novel’ in the construction of the novel by João Ubaldo Ribeiro, Viva O Povo Brasileiro. It aims at discuss the formals and content choices of the author to try remake literately for centuries of brazilian history from the happenings occur manly in the island of Itaparica. The two chosen parts will be provide the important data to the discussion: the moment of the escape from the village and part of the life of the caboclo ‘Capiroba’ and the built of the box by the “Flour Mill’s Brotherhood”, led by Julio Dandão. This chapters give us the possibility of question some important questioning treated in the book and to issue the formals choices in the narrative. Examples as the fragmentary and no-linear character of the book and the anthropophagy, subject not finished in the brazilian literature since the publication in the Manifesto Antropófago, by Oswald de Andrade, are chosen to analyze the questions. The mainly motivation is the discussion of the literary conciouness of the idea of Nation and identity, using this to free and remake the self image of the country trough the tale/history of who can never talk by self: the pour classes of the country.