A “aristocracia do pé no chão” e o herói popular em Belém do Grão-Pará de Dalcídio Jurandir

Abstract

Dalcídio Ramos Jurandir, one of the greatest modernist novelists in the Amazon, active militant of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) and creator of the Far North Cycle, built a historical perspective on the city of Belém in the 1920s in his award-winning novel Belém do Grão-Pará. In his narrative about the city in its economic crisis after the rubber pageantry, Jurandir presents another possibility of history coming from the poor population from the countryside of the State, which, in rebelling against the neglect of public powers, takes up the tradition of the 19th century, fighting with weapons against those who exploited them. In this plot of neglect, oppression and resistance, a new sun appears in the city of Belém do Grão-Pará, from the "aristocracy of the foot on the ground", the "common people", from which Dalcídio Jurandir himself and his character Lício both descend - the latter being the hero of a universe in crisis, however engaged in the struggles of his time.