Theatros e Salões and O Pirralho: the first writing fiction and Oswald de Andrade

Author(s)

João Fábio Bittencourt

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
• Defense date: 2013-07-02

Examining board members

Vera Maria Chalmers; Suzi Frankl Sperber; Marcos Antonio de Moraes

• Advisor: Vera Maria Chalmers

Abstract

Between 1909 and 1912 the young reporter Oswald de Andrade observed, took notes and wandered through the movie theaters and theatrical performances presented in São Paulo, initially as "foca" of the section Theatros e Salões of the newspaper Diario Popular, exercise of observation and critical that were fundamental in the creation of the magazine O Pirralho, mundane and literary weekly publication written and edited by the writer. These two journals are, in this thesis, both a documentation that reveals the social, economic and cultural panorama of the Belle Époque in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo in the first decade of the twentieth century; and the rising of elements that allow new interpretations of the first fictional works of Oswald de Andrade. In this sense the novels Os Condenados and Memórias Sentimentais de João Miramar are observed according to the hypothesis of Haroldo de Campos (2007) in which most of the figures that make up these works "are basically extracted from the environment in which Oswald circulated in Sao Paulo earlier and contemporary of the first big war (in: ANDRADE, p. 25). "Also according to the perspective of the influence of the Belle Époque, but from the point of view of the search for a national theater, we studied together four pieces of the author: A Recusa (1913) and O Filho do Sonho (1917), both unpublished and manuscript; Mon Coeur Balance and Leur Âme (1916). Finally, the mild theater, mostly Portuguese, is the touchstone for the study of Serafim Ponte Grande (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 10/13445-2 - Theatros e Salões and O Pirralho: the first writing fiction and Oswald de Andrade.
• Grantee: João Fábio Bittencourt
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master