Do Diário de Sílvia: a escrita de si como ruptura narrativa na obra O Tempo e o vento

Abstract

This dissertation focuses on the intimate discourse of a female character, whose name appears in the title: From Silvia s diary [2005] (Do diário de Sílvia). It is about the penultimate part of the third volume of the trilogy Time and the Wind, by Erico Verissimo. The research aims to make a critical study on the presence of confession in the speech reported by the author of Rio Grande do Sul in his classic narrative, From Silvia s diary. By reporting inner conflicts, such as the loving feeling in relation to her husband\'s brother, the affection for Rodrigo, the godfather, the skepticism towards faith in God, the conflicts of the New State dictatorship, the Spanish Civil War and World War II, the work builds a reflective view of human beings and their questions about the society in which they live, and how this afflicts it. Another unique factor of this diary is that the narrative is made by a woman, something unusual in the trilogy, since they have no leading voice in the novel. For a better explanation of my analysis of the character Sylvia, I propose a comparison with the character Ana Terra, the main female protagonist of the trilogy, and how the two faced the conflicts of life, to gain a say in the male world.