JOÃO SIMÕES LOPES NETO: REGIONALIST AND WRITER

REGIONALISTA E ESCRITOR

Abstract

Literature is related to social practices because literary works portray situations, behaviors, feelings, and can serve as tools to better understand the past and the environment in which we live. Studying about the lives of historically important writers and their works becomes a strategy to expand the interest for reading. In this sense, this report discusses one of the icons of regional literature from Rio Grande do Sul: João Simões Lopes Neto; considered to be one of the most expressive literary phenomena of the beginning of the last century. With works that mix reality and fiction, the author sought to value the history of the gaucho and his traditions, using a realistic, dry and short prose.