THE SOCIOLOGIST, THE TRAVELER AND THE ROMANIST: three contemporary visions of Recife

Abstract

This article studies representations of the city of Recife and its surroundings in three different period of the twentieth century, through three different writers and three literary genres: Luc Durtain who was a well-known writer and traveler of the 1930’s (Vers la ville Kilomètre 3, 1933); the sociologist Roger Bastide, who lived in Brazil for a very long time (Brésil terre des contrastes, 1957); and the novelist Jean-Christophe Rufin (La Salamandre, 2005). This article focuses on the common elements between these texts concerning the image they present of Recife, as well as on the particularities related to the literary styles.

Keywords

• Brazil-France
• Recife
• images
• litterature
• XXth century