Traps of the Documental Tradition: Grande Sertão:Veredas, between History and Literature

Abstract

The text made by a historian approaches the text made by a literary writer when both articulate facts and characters into plots that bear meanings and senses. The narrative in Grande Sertão: Veredas entangle the facts of history into a plot where the value of the documents of memory add to the literary text the sense of permanence and perpetuity, which would be particular to the historical tradition.