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This article analyzes the two novels of the Amazonian writer Milton Hatoum--Relato de um certo Oriente (1989) and Dois irmaos (2000)--as both revisiting and revitalizing regionalism--a classic stream of Brazilian fiction--while adding innovative nuances to it. Taking advantage of contributions belonging to classical urban literary matrices, both modern and contemporary, already incorporated into Brazilian fiction, Hatoum re-examines their regional contents, composing a hybrid tissue that keeps alive all of its sources and that in turn passes on the inheritance received from them. In this way, he rescues the specific identity of the tradition and prevents its transformation into a "multicultural text." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an analysis of contemporary Brazilian fiction from the point of view of two types of narrative present in Brazilian literature, which according to the author are urban and rural. The author argues that in order to understand Brazilian fiction at the beginning of the 21st century is necessary to understand Brazilian literature since the second half of the 20th century, when Brazil started an accelerated process of urbanization. Particular focus is given to a feminine literature and a gay literature.