Graciliano Ramos versus Octávio de Faria: o confronto entre autores "sociais" e intimistas nos anos 1930

Abstract

This article aims to retrieve and discuss some facts related
to one literary controversy occurred in 1937, involving
the writers Graciliano Ramos and Octávio de
Faria, which also took part Jorge Amado. This controversy
comes at a time of political and ideological polarization
in which two divergent perspectives of the novel
conceptualization fight among themselves looking for
statement: the “social novel“, practiced, especially by
writers from the Northeast, and the “intimist novel”,
focused on individuals dramas with catholic orientation.
From the analysis of the texts of the time, we
intend to examine the different questions that guided
this clash, which dominated the national literary establishment
until the beginning of the Brazilian Estado
Novo.