Uma leitura do naturalismo nos romances Germinal, de Émile Zola e O cortiço, de Aluísio de Azevedo

Abstract

This present coursework investigates the similarities and ruptures present in the literary works: Germinal, by the French writer Émile Zola and O Cortiço, by the Brazilian writer Aluísio de Azevedo, relating to the characteristics of the Naturalist movement identified in the novels and with the premise that both works dialogue with their respective historical period, in different countries. The study that supports this hypothesis is based on several theoretical texts of Comparative Literature, the contextualization of esthetic Naturalistic literary movement and biographies of both writers. We analyze that, among the characteristics studied in these works, there are similarities in the constant animalization of man and in the valorization of the instinct, characteristic of Determinism, in which the characters are matched to animals mainly when it is associated to the work in collective. In counterpoint, the novels are distinguished as, in Germinal, the determinism is structured in relation to the socioeconomic and hereditary position and already in O Cortiço, the determinism is worked by exposing different ethnic groups, in the foreigner relations with the country, as against the inferiority of races, especially in the descriptions of the female features.