This master's thesis is the result of a research that investigated the representation of waters in
the Amazonian literature, focusing on contouring that has as its leitmotiv the typical
hydrological disasters of the region. Among them the Andean "llocllada", the fallen lands, the
floods and the fluviomarine tide known as pororoca. The corpus consists of six short stories
by four authors: "Terra caída", by Alberto Rangel (2008), part of the book Inferno Verde; "La
llocllada" and "Sob as primeiras estrelas" [Cielo sin nubes], by the Peruvian writer Francisco
Izquierdo Ríos (1975; 2010); "A flood", by the Amazonian writer Arthur Engrácio (1995);
and "Poraquê" and “Mamí tinha razão", by the Paulista writer living in Pará João Meirelles
Filho (2017). This research adopts the comparative method and its approach is qualitative,
based on bibliography. The main hypothesis was to observe how water disruption impacts the
Amazonian subject's experience both on his direct relationship with nature and on his
relations with the prevailing social order. The theoretical axis that guides the investigation is
the concept of catastrophe, taken from contemporary philosophical thought but directly
articulated with the Aristotelian doctrine of human power. The second theoretical key used is
the concept of disaster, brought from sociological thought and also epistemologically linked
to the power of the natural act in Aristotle's doctrine. With this instrumental, the analytical
reading of water contouring is undertaken as an allegorization of the Amazonian man's modus
vivendi and of his problematic and sometimes traumatic exposure to the powers that govern
the actions of Nature and the facts of Culture. The critical interpretation of literary texts by
authors from different periods and aesthetic affiliations thus provides a reflection on the
fractures that water disasters cause in daily life and in the experience of individual and
collective subjects in the Pan-Amazon, as well as on the traumas imposed on them in late
Modernity as a result of the advance of the capital's civilization on the Amazonian border.
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