The flower on the street or the light in the swamp: similarities between the poetics of Bueno de Rivera and Drummond

Considering the controversial question of influence, discussed by Harold Bloom, and the reliever concept of poetic membership, proposed by Joao Cabral de Melo Neto, this article aims to show how the poets belonging to the generation of 1945 of Brazilian modernism are characterized by membership with the work of an older poet. We will show this relation in the study of the work of two poets: Drummond, who, according Silviano Santiago, would be the most representative poet of the twentieth century, and Bueno de Rivera, whose work shows a significant similarity of themes and images with the work of the first - which, as noted in this article, is not an indicator of lack of originality. Accordingly, we will reiterate the importance of Drummond’s work and will propose the rescue of Rivera's poetry, somehow forgotten by literary criticism, showing the points of contact between the works of those two poets in relation to the poet's anguish by being-in-world, characteristic of modernity crisis experienced by both, and approached in his works.

O PENSAMENTO DIALÉTICO DE DANTE MOREIRA LEITE E SUA CRÍTICA À IDEOLOGIA DO CARÁTER NACIONAL BRASILEIRO

Este artigo apresenta uma síntese do pensamento de Dante Moreira Leite (1927-1976) acerca da identidade nacional. Suas análises demonstram as contradições das formulações sobre o caráter nacional, ao denunciar as tentativas de generalizar as características particulares de um grupo ou classe de uma época, como se fossem de toda uma nação. Moreira Leite mostra como as formulações do caráter nacional se tornaram pseudocientíficos e se constituem em ideologias conservadoras ou burguesas, deformando realidades no intuito de fortalecer e manter o status quo. Neste sentido, Dante mostra a fragilidade de qualquer estereótipo que se aventura pelos caminhos das raízes do caráter nacional, utilizando-se de textos da literatura. Pontua o cientificismo de Silvio Romero, a originalidade de Euclides da Cunha e de numerosos outros autores, como Afonso Celso, Nina Rodrigues, Manuel Bonfim, Gilberto Freyre, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda e Caio Prado Júnior. A partir dessas referências, conclui que as ideologias existentes ligadas à definição do caráter nacional brasileiro não representam a autêntica tomada de consciência de uma nação, mas obstáculos para que um povo se torne livre de preconceitos.

THE MORE YOU LOOK, THE LESS YOU SEE: MOACYR SCLIAR’S MAX AND THE CATS AND YANN MARTEL’S LIFE OF PI

  Abstract: The release of Ang Lee’s Life of Pi (2012) brought the polemics involving Yann Martel’s Life of Pi and Moacyr Scliar’s Max and the Cats back to the limelight. In this context, this article aims at tracing parallels and showing differences between Max and the Cats and Life of Pi, focusing on the relationships between both texts and the discussion raised by these apparent similarities. Plagiarism concepts are presented and clarified and plagiarism and copyright infringement allegations on Martel’s part are rejected. The article also investigates the reasons why plagiarism allegations might have been raised.