Abstract EN:

This work proposes the analysis of verissimo's (0 tempo e o vento, continente i e ii, (1949)) and galvez's (escenas de la guerra del paraguay, los caminos de la muerte, humaita, jornadas de agonia, (1929)) narratives, which represent, respectively, the emergence of the gaucho literature in brazil and argentina, in an effort to explain the process of construction of the myth of the gaucho in the pampas. The narratives are understood as history - historical facts - and as literature - literary facts -, an articulation that allows the visualization of the making of literature on the national history. The intentions of the research were backed up by the thesis of comparison, that enable the construction of a critical and historical view of the contacting literatures, more especifically of the particular dialogues that are established between them. To that end, topics of the argentian and brazilian history were approached, as well as relevant concepts for the understanding of literature in the realm of the narrative, of the myth and of the time, which are categories used for the comparative analytical practice. The identity constructed by the two emerging cultures indicates common processes and themes, synthetized in the mytical figure of the gaucho that is rewritten by the land and that, in the sharing of history, builds up its characteristics, that is, a mytical matrix common to the two configurations.