O guarani, by José de Alencar: summary and analysis

A story told by José de Alencar is passed at the beginning of the seventeenth century, in Serra dos Órgãos, inland of the State of Rio de Janeiro, on a fazenda as margens do Rio Paquequer.

Narrated in third person, or romance and divided into four parts (Os aventureiros, Peri, Os aimorés e A Catastrophe). Deeply descriptive, the narrator tries to paint every detail of the region, the house and two people.

I summarize

The first person to be introduced is Mr. Antônio de Mariz, a Portuguese fidalgo, two founders of the city of Rio de Janeiro. I have always been dedicated to the King of Portugal and to help, whenever necessary, to consolidate the Portuguese power in the colônia. O fidalgo affirms in the first pages of the book:

- Here I am Portuguese! Here you can breathe a loyal heart that never belies the oath. Nesta terra that was given me my rei hair, and conquered my braço hair, nesta terra livre, you will reign, Portugal, as you will live n’alma de teus filhos. Eu or I swear!

The wife of Don Antônio de Mariz was Don Lauriana, a São Paulo lady described as "um bom coração, um little egoísta". Together you have two filhos, D.Diogo de Mariz, who would follow you passos profissionais do pai, and D.Cecília, a moça meiga e travessa.

Mr. Antônio tinha ainda outra filha, Mr. Isabel, bastard, fruit of a case of Fidalgo with an Indian. Don Isabel, however, lived at home in the country and was treated as a niece.

Mr. Antônio contava with help us businesses of Álvaro de Sá, family friend, and Mr. Loredano, civil servant of the farm.

Peri, Indio da tribo dos Goitacás, tinha a devoted and faithful love for Ceci. Após to save moça, or Indian foi lived with the Mariz family, passing to face all the loved ones.

- Não ha dúvida, disse D. Antônio de Mariz, to his blind dedication by Cecília wants to make a vontade with the risk of life. It is for me a few things but you will admire that I have seen this terra, or character of the Indian. From the first day that I entered here, saving minha filha, her life has been one of abnegation and heroism. Crede-me, Álvaro, é um cavalheiro português no corpo de um selvagem!

But Peri não was the only one beaten by Ceci. Álvaro Sá, a family friend, was also delighted as a girl and lived offering presents and pampering. Ceci, porém, no tinha or less interested in this faithful and elegant cavalheiro. Isabel, meia irmã de Ceci, who was beaten by Álvaro.

In the third part of the romance, Mariz runs to the family perigo. Loredano ball a plane to reach the prata mines and the Aimorean Indians decide to attack the farm.

Peri barnacle to wide vantage of the inimigo and, to save family, it submerges a great sacrifice. Knowing that you loved him was a canibais, Peri poisons himself and goes for combat.

A ideia do Índio was: ao die a tribo nourishes its meat and, next, morreria, because meat would be poisoned. That would be Peri's only way to protect Ceci.

Finally, happily, Álvaro discovers the map of Peru and achieves or saves. Loredano's projects are also not going to face him and he ends up condemned to die na fogueira.

Álvaro, who wants to save Peri, is assassinated by Indian hairs and Isabel, desperate, kills herself to accompany or beloved in the next life.

A fazenda da família Mariz was set on fire and, in order to save filha, Don Antônio beat Peru or authorized her to flee.

Or romance is enclosed in a great temporary apos, with Peri and Ceci disappearing on the horizon.

Personagens principais

Peri

Índio da tribo dos Goitacás. It nurtures deep love for Ceci, a girl who protects and accompanies her. She is the hero of history.

Ceci (Cecília)

He is a heroine of history. Meiga, twelve and delicate, she is a typical representative of romanticism. Cecília é filha do casal Mr. Antônio de Mariz and Mr. Lauriana.

Mr Antônio de Mariz

Pai de Cecília, D.Diogo and Isabel. Portuguese Fidalgo who is established as a family on a farm on the banks of the Paquequer River, in the interior of the State of Rio de Janeiro.

D.Lauriana

Mãe de Cecília and D.Diogo, wife of D.Antônio de Mariz.

D.Diogo

Irmão de Cecília and meio irmão de Isabel, D.Diogo and filho do casal D.Antônio and D.Lauriana.

Isabel

Filha bastarda de D.Antônio as an Indian, Isabel is a sensual brunette who lives with the Mariz family. She was beaten up by Álvaro de Sá.

Álvaro de Sá

A long-time friend of the Mariz family, Álvaro de Sá nurtures a paixão not reciprocated by Cecília. A meia irmã de Ceci, Isabel, for the time, and beaten by Álvaro de Sá.

Loredano

Employed by the estate of Mr. Antônio de Mariz, Loredano is a villain for excellence. He plans to usurp the patrimony of the patrão and kidnap Ceci.

Capa da first edição de Or Guarani

The romance was published for the first time in 1857 and is considered one of the main works of the first phase of modernism in Brazil. Follow down to layer of the first edition of the book:

Historic context

Or romance Or Guarani part of the ideological and aesthetic project of José de Alencar. O livro is considered Indianista and belongs to Romanticism.

Originally published in a folhetim format, isso é, with the dissemination of one chapter per week, not Diário do Rio de Janeiro, or romance was collected for the first time in a book format in 1857.

Either the author's wish was to value what he is, typically Brazilian, turning or looking for a nossa origin, for the colonized and colonizing relationship (represented not romance by the relationship of Peru and Ceci). In this sense, José de Alencar chose to transform the Indian into a kind of heroic medieval molds (courageous, courageous, idealized).

About or author

José Martiniano de Alencar was born on May 1, 1829, in Fortaleza, and died forty-eight years, with tuberculosis, on December 12, 1877, not in Rio de Janeiro.

Years for years he lived with a family in Rio de Janeiro because or country, who was a senator, had political ambitions.

José de Alencar was issued directly and atuou as a politician belonging to the Conservative Party. He was elected deputy general for Ceará, also having been Minister of Justice between the years 1869 and 1870.

He also worked as a day laborer, having written for various communication vehicles, between them or Correio Mercantil and Jornal do Comércio. In 1855, he was the chief editor of Diário do Rio de Janeiro.

Apart from being a politician and journalist, José de Alencar has a deeply active intellectual life and is tied as a speaker, theater critic and writer.

Machado de Assis or escolheu to occupy cadeira number 23 of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.

Publicou Or Guarani in 1857, barely twenty and eight years old.

Reading of the book in full

Or classic Or Guarani,by José de Alencar, it is available to the public in PDF version.

Film Or Guarani

Released in 1979, directed by Fauzi Mansur, or a long metragem and an adaptation of the book for the cinema and contacted by David Cardoso, not the role of Peri and Dorothée Marie Bouvyer playing Ceci.

More of a version of the film Or Guarani

Em 1996, Norma Bengell directed or film Or Guarani, which contains the participation of Márcio Garcia, not the role of Peri and Tatiana Issa, not the role of Ceci.

Minissérie Or Guarani

An inspired minisserie not released was produced by TV Manchete and contou with 35 chapters. Quem assinou o text foi Walcyr Carrasco and Marcos Schechtman ficou responsável pela direção.

The episodes were between August 19 and September 21, 1991.

In relation to the cast, Angélica played Ceci and Leonardo Brício played Peri.

Opera Or Guarani

The composer Carlos Gomes created a non-romance inspired opera by José de Alencar. The show was presented for the first time in Italy (in Milan), not in 1870.

Conheça also:

• Livro A Moreninha, by Joaquim Manuel de Macedo
• Main works of romanticism
• Livro Lucíola, by José de Alencar
• Livro Senhora, by José de Alencar
• Livro Iracema, by José de Alencar
• Livro A Viuvinha, by José de Alencar