Nella narrativa brasiliana attuale, protagonista la città.

Abstract

The aim of this article is to observe the presence and the role of the city not only as an urban space opposed to the rural one, but of a city that takes on a privileged position, as a protagonist or, at least, as a co-star, in novels produced between the end of last century and our days in the brasilian literary landscape. History, fiction, myth, memory are aspects already present in the city described during the Modernism by authors as Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Manuel Bandeira and Vinicius de Moraes, but also, in different moments, by Lima Barreto, João do Rio, Rubem Fonseca, witnesses of the changes of Rio de Janeiro. On the other hand Mário de Andrade, with his work Paulicéia Desvairada, reveals the changes of São Paulo due also to the great immigration.Nevertheless  the  principal  purpose  of  this  text  is  about  the  importance  given to the cities of Manaus and Brasília respectively in Milton Hatoum’s and João Almino’s novels. These authors do not include themselves in the line of research of Regionalism, typical of the brasilian tradition, but they  make the human presences to act in an urban context that seems itself personified.