Rachel de Queiroz, egregious writer, in the aridity of the textual backcountry soil

Abstract

This work discusses about literary criticism in Rachel de Queiroz's novel The Fifteen published in the 1930, focusing on the drought of 1915. The literary work stands out as to the social aspect that originated it, the drought. The novel highlights the following situation: the drought and the consequences caused both for the Cowboy Chico Bento and his family as for Vicente and Conceição, a cultured girl from the capital. The narrative is a reference milestone in the authoress's literary life, since she was the first woman to occupy a chair at the Brazilian Academy of Letters, with this, the objective of this article is to analyze some points of criticism related to the work, presenting the relevance of this and the authoress in brazilian literature. This study uses, as approach, qualitative research; as to technique, bibliographic. To support this research, we examine the theorists: Monteiro (1977), Filho (1977), Moisés (1975), Cândido (2006), among others.