Em busca de uma nova razão poética: o lirismo moderno de Mário de Andrade

Abstract

The purpose of this essay is to discuss the main fundamental developed by Mário de Andrade in the construction of a new poetic and lyric attitude up against the modernist poetry. Influenced by the thought of critics as Paul Dermée and by the reading of the avant-garde manifestos which were being published and widespread in Europe of that time, Mário de Andrade had put into practice the basic principle of anthropophagi, absorbing and digesting all of these ideias that were coming from outside and transforming them into something completely ours, that is, typically Brazilian. This formal and aesthetic revolution also brings a critical reflection concerning our national condition, asking the nature of our literary production as well as our own cultural and historical identity as Brazilians, the same way as, though in different conditions, some important names of the romantic revolution had done.