Vidas secas: as percepções de Fabiano e o estado ausente
<p>Much has been researched about Graciliano Ramos’work. Vidas secas had numerous studies devoted to its analysis. The position of the criticism about the brutalized characters has changed.The first reviews dealt with the animalization of Fabiano and his family, seeing them as non psychologically complex After this first interpretation, criticism proposed a reinterpretation of Graciliano’s stylistic resources, through which is possible to comprehend the characters in a different way. This study proposes a second look at two distinct moments of the novel in which Fabiano has contact with the State: through his confrontation with the yellow soldier in chapters Cadeia and O soldado amarelo. The questions and perceptions of Fabiano, brought to light by Ramos’ free indirect discourse help us to reflect on his psychological complexity denied by early reviews. In this paper, we investigate how the historical moment passes through the narrative,which is used as raw material for the character’s constitution.</p>