TWO LOOKS ON BRAZIL – TRISTES TÓPICOS AND GRANDE SERTÃO

Abstract

Until what point the intellectual improvement made possible the improvement in the social relations between field and city in Brazil of 20th century middle? The hypothesis is that the articulated and displayed images by important intellectuals were many times entailed to a supposed necessity of governmental public politics directed to the field inhabitant. Even that it seems obvious, the constatation takes us to at least two questions: the disguise of a superficial human being construction, which is, the idea of democratic State, based in a false politics unit, social and cultural, when not racial; and, as a consequence, the subjugation of social groups kept out of society, which the field inhabitant is only one example. For the evaluation of this problem in 20th century middle, we have two basic texts, for joining three important dimensions to think about the problem of the representation and state homogenization: 1) to be about workmanships of literary relevance; 2) for being central in the debate on the relation field-city; 3) to establish dialogue with the academic thought of its time. These workmanships, which the article talks about, are Tristes trópicos, by Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Grande sertão: veredas by João Guimarães Rosa.