O ROMANCE DA URBANIZAÇÃO: A MODERNIDADE A CONTRAPELO

Abstract

This work suggests that, within what the Brazilian criticism and literaryhistory call novel of the 30s’, a specific type of narrative will appear, which I identifyas the novel of urbanization. In different levels of its formal construction, this novelwould question the impasses and contradictions of the transition - always inconclusive- from agrarian Brazil to a country in process of urbanization and industrialization.Time, space, plot and characters will be rearranged in the sense that, on thelevel of the fictional representation, the coexistence and/or juxtaposition of those twodistinct social formations will undermine, to certain degree, the structure of the realnaturalisticBrazilian novel.