The Terras Novas of the farm: a new analysis of the work O picapau amarelo (1939)

Author(s)

Mariana Baldo de Genova

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
• Defense date: 2006-07-26

Examining board members

Universidade Estadual de Campinas Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem; João Luís Ceccantini; Carlos Eduardo Ornelas Berriel

• Advisor: Universidade Estadual de Campinas; Marisa Lajolo

Abstract

This thesis is an analysis of the work O Picapau Amarelo (1939), of Monteiro Lobato, based on the moving of the foreign characters to Dona Benta¿s farm. While many scholars caracterize O Picapau Amarelo as a narrative example based on the fantasy, this study intends to point out the presence, in the work, of social criticism and the author¿s pessimistic view related to the modern and urbanized society. This thesis also inserts O Picapau Amarelo in a line that includes works in which is possible to recognize the different conceptions of Lobato concerning the modernity. This way it is suggested that the ideas of Lobato are shown in ¿phases¿ ¿ of statement, doubt and denial of the progress ¿ that maybe are associated with Lobato¿s life (success and failures) and activities, added to the social and economical situation of the country (AU)