Mário de Andrade: on being São Paulo-wise in Paulicéia Desvairada

Published in 1922, Mário de Andrade’s Paulicéia desvairada is considered his first truly personal, if uneven, book of poetry. One of the characteristics of this volume is the opening declaration to the effect that São Paulo is the tumult of his life, and critics have customarily remarked on the orga...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Foster, David William
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2008
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM)
Repositorio:Literatura e Autoritarismo
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/73928
Acceso en línea:http://periodicos.ufsm.br/LA/article/view/73928
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Paulicéia desvairada
São Paulo city
Urbanization of poetry
Brazilian modernism
Cidade de São Paulo
Urbanização da poesia
Modernismo brasileiro
Descripción
Sumario:Published in 1922, Mário de Andrade’s Paulicéia desvairada is considered his first truly personal, if uneven, book of poetry. One of the characteristics of this volume is the opening declaration to the effect that São Paulo is the tumult of his life, and critics have customarily remarked on the organizing presence of the city in the volume. This study insists that, rather than poeticizing the city, Paulicéia desvairada represents what can be called the urbanization of poetry, and proceeds to examine, in a way previous criticism has failed to do, the incorporation of the material reality of the city into this highly significant inaugural text of Brazilian modernism.