Tradition and Rupture in the Works of Contemporary Brazilian Writers

This article analyses the relations between tradition and rupture in three authors: Raduan Nassar, Lya Luft and Moacyr Scliar. Even as their fiction is bent on tradition – Lebanese, German and Jewish culture – one seeks to chart the immigrant\u27s disruptive movement towards his/her reinscription in social space, investigating the particular way the process of rooting (or uprooting) takes place in each author\u27s work