Echoes of Rural Past and Signs of Urban Future in the Present to the Characters of O resto é silêncio [The Rest is Silence], a Novel by Erico Verissimo

Authors

  • Lohanna Machado Universidade Federal do Paraná

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-8133.opiniaes.2016.124617

Keywords:

O resto é silêncio, the country and the city, urbanization, Rio Grande do Sul.

Abstract

This paper attempts to investigate how Erico Verissimo’s novel O resto é silêncio represents the relations between the city and the countryside. The plot takes place in the capital of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, in the early 40s, and it is rich in references to the period of the 30s and the 40s when the country passed through an intensified urbanization process, which enables a research on this matter. In order to do so, this paper’s scope restricts itself to the narrator and to some characters judged more relevant either for keeping the remembrance of a past in the countryside or for representing urban stereotypes.

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Published

2016-12-21

How to Cite

Machado, L. (2016). Echoes of Rural Past and Signs of Urban Future in the Present to the Characters of O resto é silêncio [The Rest is Silence], a Novel by Erico Verissimo. Opiniães, 5(9), 65-73. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-8133.opiniaes.2016.124617