El paisaje en la literatura goiana: el “Mato Grosso Goiano” en la obra de Carmo Bernardes

Abstract

The present study aims to highlight the role of a landscape record in the memorialist literature of Carmo Bernardes, author of the regionalism in Goiás, who conceives a historical and geographic outline of an epoch and a society through his knowledge of nature. The article’s purpose is to analyze the memoir “Quarto Crescente – Relembranças”, in which the author gives a significative contribution to the notions of environment, occupation and deforestation of the Mato Grosso Goiano, a region once covered of forests in Goiás, that was completely devasted during the 20th century. An analysis of the book revealed that the descriptions of the author act as a record of the primitive landscape, and as a parameter and complaint against the environmental impacts.