Além do tempo cronológico: "Vidas secas" e o não lugar em face da seca e da pobreza

Abstract

This study seeks to reflect, from the novel Vidas secas, by Graciliano Ramos, on the phenomenon of drought as a cause of poverty and exclusion. The novel's narrative develops in the midst of a landscape devastated by drought, the difficulties faced by a family of migrants in permanent recreation, around natural phenomena potentiated by a strong structure of domination of a society that only sees exchange value, excluding and making invisible those who do not have anything to exchange, making their lives a reality of servitude, combined with the lack of dignity that prevents the full capacity to be. From the literature that deals with the theme of drought, it is possible to discern that the phenomenon represents a repetitive and perennial cycle that, added to the lack of basic structures, pushes towards a reality of poverty, characterizing the sad routine of the sertanejo, nomadic in his own homeland, in search of better living conditions.