Erechim se torna Boa Vista: história, cultura e política em Cogumelos de Outono de Gladstone Osório Mársico.

Abstract

Through prose, having a literary characteristic in the picaresque satirical style, Mushrooms of Autumn, written in 1972 by Gladstone Osório Mársico, is a regional historical novel in which the fictional city of Boa Vista receives, as members of a novel, funny characters who inhabit that locality, while legendary historical figures participate indirectly and directly in the plot, as when Getúlio Vargas visited the city. This all takes place in the mid-thirties during World War II, when within the city a group of supposed Nazi fanatics were politically inspired by recreating a movement similar to what was happening in Germany. What we can see is that when we read the book, we notice that Boa Vista refers in a similar way, both historically and geographically, to the city where Mársico actually lived, that is, Erechim. Therefore, the present work has the proposal to identify this environment of conviviality, that is, where and how this process of relationship with the environment, its perceptions, imaginary, fusion and creation took place. What was the inspiration of Mársico's characters in the reality in which he lived (with main emphasis on political, ideological and cultural aspects), history, geographical points and how in fiction they mix to build, recreate, modify collective memory. The research, therefore, makes evident these elements mentioned in the development of the collective memory of Erechim of that period, making a parallel between the literary imagination of the writer with the historical context in which he was inserted. The relationship between literature and history with related aspects between fiction and reality becomes essential as a theoretical point of view of the work, in addition to understanding the author's writing style based on the satirical and picaresque. In addition to the study based on the work itself, the present work also encompasses both a bibliographic research and a documentary research in the writer's post morten collection.