Аннотация:This dissertation searchs to carry through an analysis of the romance Os retirantes of José do Patrocínio having as main criterion the relation between culture and literature in a context of transistion of the reality idea.The workmanship was published in 1879 in serial form in the periodical Gazeta de noticias and had as inspiration a journalistic covering carried through by Patrocínio of dries that it reached the province of the Ceará in the year of 1878.Said this, it is argued as the author creates a narrative incorporating historical and imaginary elements in a fiction workmanship that presents traces of the romantismo, but that also it presents innovations in aspects as of the representation of the nature and in the construction of the personages.
