Modernização estética e sujeitos periféricos em Paulicéia Desvairada de Mário de Andrade

Abstract

This dissertation aims to study the poetic representation of peripheral subjects in Mário de Andrade s work Paulicéia Desvairada (1921). Black people, workers, poor immigrants and women are selected as representative figures of an exclusionary modernization process that occurred in São Paulo at the beginning of the 20th century and also as main figures in the poetic attempt to recreate the city in the mentioned literary work. For such purpose, the studies of Nicolau Sevcenko (1992) and Sérgio Miceli (2012) are used to discuss the historical process of urban growth in São Paulo at the beginning of last century. These studies also promote a reflection on social determinants which permeated all the discursive formation of Mário s intellectuality and its close relation with the decadent aristocratic ruling class of that age. The concept of living metaphor developed by Paul Ricoeur (2000) (The rule of metaphor) is utilized in order to help in the analysis of the poetic reconstruction of social reality, thinking metaphor as a way of rewriting the reality which would make possible an apprehension of another aspects of the latter. In short, this academic work proposes a discussion on the way of Paulicéia Desvairada s flaneur will give its viewpoint on social injustices and changes on the types of sociability experienced by São Paulo city in the early 20th century.