Amazônia, das travessias lusitanas à literatura de até agora

Abstract

SINCE THE FIRST voyage along the Amazonas river in 1541-1542, the European colonizer writes about the way he lords the waters and the forest over. Disclosing the New World, he praises with astonishment its beauty, but nonsensically starts the extermination of the Indian people and culture. More than three centuries later, the "civilized" Amazonian literature comes out and the patterns of a text that exolts the splendor of Nature, and questions life and the essential queries of the human being are also inscribed. While socially and politically committed, this text is aesthetically constructed and acts as an alert and salvation.