THE NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE OF CONTERPOINT IN THE NOVEL CAMINHOS CRUZADOS, BY ERICO VERISSIMO

Abstract

The article presents an approach of the way  Erico Verissimo has used the narrative technique of counterpoint on elaboration of Caminhos Cruzados novel, adapting it to the goals of his own literary project and to the  context of Brazilian Literature in the 30. The counterpoint is an imported technique from music that allows an elaboration of a fragmented and simultaneous narrative composed by many parallel intrigues and characters which independent of one another. Through this narrative technique, orchestrated by an omniscient narrator who has a prime vision of internal and external events of its characters, the author offers to reader a narrative that walks for all social groups of a big city, reveling the hypocrisy of some bourgeois class divisions and the misery and the struggle for survival of lower and poor social class.