Visitantes ao Sul is the title of a set of novels written by Luis Antonio de AssisBrasil and published from 2001 to 2012. In such novels, the writer deals with traveling as a literary theme, presenting characters in constant movement and, sometimes, in situations of displacement. This paper aims at analysing not only the transit experienced by the four protagonists of the novels, taking into account their contacts with diverse cultural spaces, but also intends to reflect upon their insertion in the specific temporality of modernity and in the so-called fin de siècle. This paper also discusses one feature that characterises that set of novels: music, which frequently provides the characters' mobility with a rhythm, implying the development of a comprehensive metaphor and suggesting new meanings to those narratives.
space; mobility; music; historical novel; Visitantes ao Sul; Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil