Religião e patriarcalismo na literatura de Bernardo Élis

Abstract

The study by Maria Aparecida de Castro and Carolina Teles Lemos, identified, quite appropriately, as a “scientific” reading of Bernardo Élis’ literature, analyzed three short stories produced by the author between the years 1940 and 1960: “Nhola dos Anjos and the flood of Corumbá”, “The hoe” and “The holy virgin of Joana’s room”. The authors warn us to read these three stories in their entirety, “because only then will the reader be able to follow our look at the brutality and strength of these three narratives by Bernardo Élis”. I followed the route suggested by them and confirm the importance of reading the stories to understand Élis's literature as a mirror of the socio-historical and cultural formation of Goiás. Read the three stories and then read the text by Cida and Carolina, composed with the theoretical rigor necessary for academic studies, so criticized by the current Brazilian political establishment.