Era uma vez 1889... História e construção literária em “Pequena história da República”.

Abstract

This paper studies the text "Pequena história da República", by Graciliano Ramos, part of the book Alexandre e outros heróis, commoly considered as children destinated and poorly studied by brazilian literary criticism. Thus, our goal is to draw a more detailed analysis and to present the text as literary object compared with the historiographical discourse. Although it is also commonly treated as historical chronicle or a satire of Brazilian historiography, among other classifications, but we cannot ignore that the selection and composition of the narrative was made by a distinguished writer, able to turn on literature material various aspects of brazilian society. Therefore, it approaches the text as literary discourse of critical reflection on the formation of the Republic in Brazil, taking into account the relationship between history and literature through the perspective of sociological criticism. Furthermore, we investigate the structural components of the work and how they contribute to the construction of a restatement of the republican period in our country through a critical historical view.