Dois irmãos: um romance às margens do negro

Abstract

For the originality that surround it the whole of literary works inspired in the Amazonian universe represent an interesting aspect in the Brazilian literature panorama. The exuberant and portentous nature of this region, geographically characterized by vast immeasurable lands, have always suggested fascination and admiration of all those who have proposed to discursively register it. Despite of the esthetical/ideological orientations that guide these authors, there is a cohesion element that closes up such representations and gives them a unity: the emphatic characterization of the geographic environment used as a way of affirming/exalting local values. Having a contrary point of view about this position which is based in a restrictive perspective of the narrative content to a determined space, Milton Hatoum elects the Amazon as a scenery of coexistence and intercrossing of languages, cultures and traditions. Inhabited by immigrants, the fiction universe of the Amazonian Author is highlighted by the apprehension of a universe marked by the dissolution and the rupture, elements that represent a privileged horizon in his work. Essentially marked by the sign of exclusion, the narrator of Two Brothers goes through the affective way that guides him to the past, a time where the father s identity is purposely hid. Such an ambiguity has never been undone in the nar