Os elementos simbólicos da cultura amazônica na obra Carro dos Milagres, de Benedicto Monteiro

Abstract

In an attempt to understand the symbolic representations present in the Amazonian imagination and capable of shedding light on the knowledge of the peoples of the forest, the present work aims to highlight the elements of Amazonian culture present in the book Car of Miracles (1975), by Benedicto Wilfred Monteiro 1924-2008). For that, the study of bibliographical character, has an analytical corpus constituted by four short stories, being: “The car of Miracles”, “The Precipice”, “Mulatto Tree” and “The Fish”, observing the symbolic and social phenomena translated by the author and that exert influences on Amazonian life, in the way of seeing and (re)creating the world. Thus, from a more pragmatic point of view, the work follows the itinerary of analyzes seeking to understand in Monteiro's narrative the representations and contradictions of an Amazon marked, not only by its natural riches, but also by poverty, abandonment by the public power and , moreover, by faith as a representative force of the local culture.