Seara Vermelha : discurso ideológico/partidário e suas implicações no estético

Abstract

This research analyzes the book Seara Vermelha by the writer Jorge Amado. It attempts to demonstrate that the ideological and political project from the Communist Political Party is explicitly part of the construction of the narrative of the book and it evaluates how much and in what ways this is reflected on the esthetics of the novel. The demonstration of the presence of the communist political project on the narrative is initially done by the analysis of the extratextual elements of the book: title, theme sentences and dedications. It also shows the infiltration of a political party ideology on the plot of the novel by setting conflicts on the narrative which literarily represent the existing conflict of classes in the capitalist society and by the construction of the character Juvêncio as the typical hero of the socialist realism. On the one hand, it opposes to the view that the presence of the ideological and political speech always jeopardizes the literary value of Jorge Amado s work, and at the same time the study reveals the existence of an esthetic elaborate work in the narrative moments of Seara Vermelha when the ideological and political project is realized explicitly or implicitly. On the other hand, there are also narrative moments when it becomes evident the harm caused by the literary construction in favor of the theses of the Communist Political Party. By the fact that the ideological and political speech some times damages the esthetics of the narrative construction, and other times it fits accurately to the romantic story without causing any harm to the esthetics of the book, I have come to the conclusion that it is not the presence or absence of the ideological and political speech that makes the work of Jorge Amado better or worse when its esthetics is to be analyzed. In Seara Vermelha , the biggest or the smallest manifestation of the esthetics is, above all, due to the transformation which is done or not with the ideological and political speech as an esthetic literary work.