Espaços que se cruzam e vozes que se entrelaçam : o discurso do narrador em Dois irmãos, de Milton Hatoum

Abstract

After eleven years from the launch of his first novel, A tale of a certain Orient (1989), Milton Hatoum presents us the work The Brothers, the two brothers (2000). The author uses, in it, another time the manauara universe, as a romantic space; the Lebanese immigrant community; a narrator with social characteristics of exclusion. The aim of this work is to analyse the trajectory of the narrator Nael which, tormented by a non legitimate affiliation, and also the fact of being subordinate, through the narrative, he goes to the past in search of the origin of his paternity, discovering throughout the narrative, being a bearer of various origins, as well as Manaus , a port city, situated at the center of the forest, on the shore of Negro river. He realized that paternal identity was not important and reflecting on the space which he lives, will transform his own writing in a suitable space to give voice to the silenced voices by an efervescent city. Our approach will be on the social, cultural and historical questions which includes this challenge, and understanding them, we focus on themes as the consequences of the urbanization of the cities, the fragments of the individual, the process of cultural hybrid. The method for these analyses is based on the cultural hybrid theories from Nestor Canclini and studies on Identity, from Stuart Hall. For understanding the ficcional universe of Milton Hatoum, we will use literary theory and also reflections about critical studies on the author.