Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: WILLIAN FERREIRA DE SOUSA

AQUANARRATIVITY IN CANDUNGA, BY BRUNO DE MENEZES: A NOVEL ABOUT TRAILS AND TRACKS

Literature. Amazonia. Aquonarrative. Bruno de Menezes.

Studies on the aquonarrative are linked to a vision of the Amazon told and retold by writers who highlight the region's liquid wealth. This concept emerged with the research of professor and writer Paulo Nunes on the work of Dalcídio Jurandir (1909-1979), but this concept has become fundamental to understanding other literary productions that deal with the reality of Amazonian man. In this respect, the novel Candunga (1954), by Bruno de Menezes (1893-1963), is a landmark of Amazonian literature, as it deals with the theme of migration, initially revealing the sufferings of those fleeing the drought in the Brazilian Northeast and then showing a change of scenery and perspective with the arrival of the migrants in the interior of Pará, a place abundant in water. From this new reality, in the Bragantina Zone, other challenges are presented to the characters in the narrative, but Menezes' writing shows that social transformation is possible if the settlers become aware. In this way, this research seeks to demonstrate how aquonarrativity is present in the novel Candunga; it also aims to provide a better understanding of this form of enunciation, its origins, characteristics and examples (in the work in question and in others that focus on the Amazon). From this study comes the need to point out the relevance of Candunga and its author to the context of Modernism in the Northern region. Finally, this research discusses the fate of the characters in the novel, their interaction with the space in which they live and the result of their transformations, as an effect of “liquidoamplovivência”, a characteristic associated with Bruno and other authors who deal with the Amazon.