Entre a pedra e o vento: uma análise dos contos de Aníbal Machado / Between the stone and the wind: an analysis of Aníbal Machados shot stories

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2010

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The following paper analyzes the most important stories of A Morte da Porta Estandarte, Tati, a Garota e Outras História, written by Anibal Monteiro Machado, a notable personage in Brazilian literature, born in Sabará in the State of Minas Gerais. Although he published very little, Anibal Machado was an important cultural agitator from the 1920s to the 1950s. Perhaps because of this, much has been said about the person and his activities and very little about his literary work . Most of his literature arose during the 1940s and 1950s and not by coincidence, principally because that period, as a result of the growing urbanization in southeastern Brazil, was emblematic when portraying the contradictory social-political movement, the core of the themes dealt with by the writer. The intense migration to the urban areas and the life of that population, which fell victim to the conservative modernization of Brazil, is present in different hues and shades throughout his work that uses a plethora of antiethical characters to lay bare the structural contradiction forged because of an insurgent, formal democracy. The contrasts and contradictions of Brazil, in light of the ideological project conceived by the Brazilian intellectuals, which saw the masses as part and parcel of the country while simultaneously considering them entirely incapable of extricating themselves from the tutelage of the Brazilian political and intellectual elite, are aesthetically developed in the stories of Anibal Machado in such a manner as to stress, with fundamental ambiguity, the class system of writing with an unorthodox, albeit clearly avant garde, approach. This paper explores and expands on the anti-thesis presented by Cavalcanti Proença who, when commenting the stories of A Morte da Porta Estandarte, Tati e Outras Histórias, affirmed seeing in them the image of captive balloons rising into a creative and dreamlike sky without, however, losing touch with the ground of a critical and observing spirit. In this paper, one can perceive that the anti-thesis present in the literary work of Anibal Monteiro Machado is in fact evidence of commitment to form as it reveals through conflicts a type of historical impasse of our society.

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estética do meio termo modernização conservadora conservative modernization aníbal machado aníbal machado modernism surrealism surrealismo aesthetics of medium-term modernismo

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