Do Orpheu ao Dândi: os contos de Sá Carneiro e as crônicas de João do Rio

Abstract

This dissertation studies two important authors from portuguese language at modern literature: Mário de Sá Carneiro (portuguese) and João do Rio (brazilian). Both of them have lived the many changes suffered by ocidental society in the end of 19Ћ century and the beggining of the 20Ћ century. At this time the relations between Brazil and Portugal were disturbed, but there were an approach movement between these countries, but Portugal would never let being the birthplace of Brazil, there was no reason to deny the affinities. What seems approach the written of Sá Carneiro and Joao do Rio are the changes, in general scope, suffered in the mentioned time. Both were influenced by tendencies that were originated in the cultural center of that period: France. These tendencies called vanguards, they gave origin to the Modernist Movement in Brazil and Portugal. In Portugal, Mario de Sá Carneiro participated of the creation of this new literary movement with the magazine Orpheu. In Rio de Janeiro, there was a growing modernization at politics, social and cultural life, was the real belle époque of the city, wich Joao do Rio participated, helping the growing of the criticism and journalism in general. We analyze here some tales from Sa Carneiro and some chronicles from Joao do Rio. We find into them lot from the modern crisis lived by them, produce through that corpus approaches between both authors. In this process of comparison, we emphasize some modernists aspects, making troubles with the differences and the similarities, intending to identify the influences and the circumstances that took those writers to written the way they saw and lived the city, the life, the history from their countries as background, presenting wich way these two contemporary characters of cultural artistic life introduced in their papers the presence of the routine, the day by day of the city, and the contradiction with the currents of that period