PERSPECTIVISM AND VEROSIMILANCE IN “GREEN HELL” (2021), BY BRUNO SÉRVULO

Abstract

This article analyzes the short story Inferno Verde (2021), by Bruno Sérvulo, in order to understand how contemporary Amazonian literature articulates realism and mythical imagination through the category of verisimilitude and the Amerindian concept of perspectivism. This qualitative research employed Brazilian critical references to examine narrative construction in terms of space, time, characters, and narrator. The study found that the detailed description of daily practices, such as açaí harvesting, provides an effect of reality and sustains the fictional pact, enabling the acceptance of the unusual. It also revealed that the metamorphosis of the characters into enchanted beings expresses perspectivist logic, in which the forest acts as an active and transformative subject. It is concluded that Sérvulo’s work goes beyond regionalism by proposing new ways of understanding the world, placing diverse epistemologies in dialogue and reaffirming Amazonian literature as a space of critical and cultural elaboration.