“Grande sertão: veredas”, a commented birdlife inventory

Abstract

The present paper aims to inventory the birds mentioned in the novel “Grande sertão: veredas”, classifying them and tracing a panorama of the creative process that brought them to the pages of the book. Our goal is to unveil the nature of the avifauna representation in the work, an ecologically conscious reading alternative in opposition to the anthropocentric perspective that treats the natural elements in an opaque and picturesque way. We believe that an ecocritical approach allows us to recognize new aspects of the complex rosian creation, an amalgam of natural science and popular culture originating a mimesis of nature that fecundates several other motifs within the work.