Between ‘prestigious’ and ‘prestigious’: Dalcídio Jurandir and Amazonian regionalismo

Abstract

The aim of this work is to analyse and qualify Dalcídio Jurandir's representation of the Amazon in Marajó (1947). To do this, I analyse the novel internally, inspired by Antônio Cândido, in which I observe the social types, the dynamics of social relations and the setting in which the plot of the novel unfolds, as well as trying to objectify the interconnection between this representation and its own social fabric at the time of its creation. To do this, I use letters by the writer, his critical fortune, as well as the social context in which the novel was produced. The interconnection between these two levels makes explicit, mediated by the novel's structure, the author's pessimism about resolving the social problems of those corners, which is translated into the novel with the ‘fatality’ of the social condition and fate of each character, also showing that the novel is an objectification of Dalcídio Jurandir's marginal position in the national and regional literary field.