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| Author(s): |
Ieda Lebensztayn
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2009-08-13 |
| Examining board members: |
Alcides Celso de Oliveira Villaca;
Fabio Rigatto de Souza Andrade;
Alfredo Bosi;
Luis Gonçales Bueno de Camargo;
Paulo Elias Allane Franchetti
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| Advisor: | Alcides Celso de Oliveira Villaca |
| Abstract | |
I introduce here Novidade, a magazine published in 1931 in Alagoas, a Brazilian northeastern state, whose main purpose was to combat platitudes in politics and art. Some of its contributors were: Alberto Passos Guimarães, Aurélio Buarque de Holanda, Aloísio Branco, Carlos Paurílio, Graciliano Ramos, Jorge de Lima, José Lins do Rego, Santa Rosa, Valdemar Cavalcanti and Willy Lewin. Since the young among the group reacted against the lack of novelties and were called meninos impossíveis (impossible boys), I analyze a scene of Erich Maria Remarques Sem novidades no front (All quiet on the western front) and Jorge de Limas O mundo do menino impossível, apprehending in the group traits of modernism, regionalism, critical current issues and social concern. From texts of some writers of the magazine, I present their profiles and apprehend their critical attitude against the commonplace of misery, ignorance, violence and personalistic politics. Focused on those questions, Graciliano Ramos texts in Novidade stand out: the chapter XXIV of Caetés and the articles Sertanejos, Chavões (unpublished in a book form), Milagres and Lampião. They are the best critical expression of the magazine and permit seeing the impasses present in stereotypes, which the novelist fought against when he built his characters. I study those texts, linking them to Nuvens and Os astrônomos (Infância) and, in an analytical-interpretative movement of central scenes and images of S. Bernardo, Angústia and Vidas secas, I quest for Graciliano Ramos essentially ethical poetic. Revealing the intellectuals impasse in a world of violence, he set up his protagonists social and moral problems, artistically embodied together, showing, at the same time, the unequal social order, the need for understanding the other and a sense of vainness of everything. Straining to comprehend the similarities and differences among words, things and beings, Graciliano resisted the commonplace through literary writing. (AU) | |