Abstract

MARTENS OLIVEIRA, Marilu. "Eldorado, Babel, and Far West": Rodrigo Garcia Lopes' Londrina in O trovador. Lit. teor. hist. crit. [online]. 2020, vol.22, n.1, pp.219-242.  Epub Apr 13, 2020. ISSN 0123-5931.  https://doi.org/10.15446/lthc.v22n1.82298.

The northern part of the department of Paraná, Brazil is a recently colonized region, with scarce literary production, particularly with respect to fiction. The article focuses on O trovador, by Rodrigo Garcia Lopes, which provides an overview of the period, specifically of the city of Londrina, on the basis of a Provencal poem. In the style of Umberto Eco, the author writes a historical-detective novel in which literature and history enter into an intense, erudite, and ironic dialogue. It provides a critical view of the English colonial spirit, in a manner that informs and entertains the reader, while authenticating its fictional discourse with elements of reality. The article addresses the work as a new type of historical novel and discusses the features that make it such (following guidelines suggested by Esteves, among other researchers), discusses the author's knowledge regarding the "library", according to Samoyault, and examines Londrina as a human and geographic category.

Keywords : library; history and cartography of Londrina; new historical novel; O trovador; Rodrigo Garcia Lopes.

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