ANDORINHA ANDORINHA...PASSEI A VIDA À TOA À TOA: A BRASILIDADE NAS CRÔNICAS DE MANUEL BANDEIRA

Abstract

To realize the richness of Manuel Bandeira’s prose as a historical source a very extensive contact is not necessary. Broadly focused by literary studies, the attention given to the poet by other areas of the humanities seems, still shy, especially when it comes to his work in prose. In this work we use chronicles from the Andorinha, Andorinha book, with the intention of delineating the Brazilianness in Bandeira’s perspective. The book, which covers 40 years of the author's production (1920-1960), was organized by Carlos Drummond de Andrade and published in 1966, bringing texts of various topics in which we seek to realize the national theme’s emphasis, and how it is presented in his chronicles, even in language issue’s, or texts about music, art and poetry. In reviewing these texts it is clear that the proximity to the modernists, especially his friendship with Mario de Andrade, marks the thought of the poet on Brazil. With this, we used a sample from the established correspondence between the two authors as research support, which was revealed as an extremely rich research source of Brazilian’s culture. Starting from the field of cultural history, our research seeks to think the Bandeira's prose as a (priviledged) representation form of that context and, by extension, the dialogue with his own time.