Guarani Individual

The adventurer would give the life to enjoy; the gentleman would arrostaria the death to deserve a look; the savage if would kill, if necessary she was, alone to make Ceclia to smile. (Jose de Alencar: The Guarani. CAP: VIII) Blowing a heroic myth, Alencar attributes to the Guarani a history that joins national and universal in the measure where mitifica and it becomes heroic the colonial past of Brazil.

Jose de Alencar at the same time in that it accents to the maximum the local color, also showing historical legends, customs, languages and facts. The author makes bridge between document and fancy, idealizing the Brazilian primitive, mainly through the scene, of herosmo and the Cortez love of the medieval romances of cavalry. THE NATIONAL FACE AND ITS UNIVERSAL TRACES In the literary manifestations of Jose de Alencar and Pink Guimares Joo, the regionalistic sort goes beyond the fiction. While this part of particular for the generality, observing the individual in the measure where it combines itself in the humanity, the regionalism understands this individual of contrary form. It is in the ratio where the citizen if disintegrates of a generalization, that the manifest regionalism if.

It shows the individual as product of a way, on to its environment, separate of everything what he is strange to its world. However the regionalism in such a way in Alencar how much in Guimares, it does not imply abandonment of the universal one. In the truth, this aspect will go to be only one significant suggestion that it converges to a especificidade that prevails. Inside of this perspective, sertanejo created by Pink Guimares, is configured as universal man when confrotting itself with existenciais problems..