For a moral of language on the problematic regionalism: Alhué by José Santos González Vera and Vidas Sêcas by Graciliano Ramos

Authors

  • Hugo Herrera Pardo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19177/rcc.v7e22012242-256

Keywords:

Problematic regionalism, Moral of language, Alhué, Vidas sêcas

Abstract

This article propose that the position about languaje that the narrator and characters, in the novels Alhué by José Santos González Vera and Vidas sêcas by Garciliano Ramos, starting from the comunión of the rural space, is presented as a critical option agains the problems of the new posibilities of the human condition imposed by de modernity and its production circuits. The reflexión on this “moral of lenguaje” it’s framed by the problematic regionalism denominated by Antonio Candido, trying to enclose, from a comparative studie, some of the encounter points between the representative of the chilean criollism and the brasilian serton novel.

Author Biography

  • Hugo Herrera Pardo
    Doctor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Profesor agregado Becario Conicyt.

Published

2012-12-12

Issue

Section

Literature