BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL: THE CITY IN PARQUE INDUSTRIAL

Abstract

This assignment studies the narrative construction of Parque industrial (1933) by Pagu, trying to show that the work is relevant for some procedures related to modernist artists Week 1922, close to the aesthetics of pictorial literature, and determine the relationships between the characters and the urban context around it: São Paulo, having grown dramatically, it is, in this narrative, in a space that we can see a real class struggle: on the one hand, the bourgeoisie, holds capital, and on the other hand, the lumpen proletariat whose labor provides the means for  which bourgeois ostentation sprint their way of life. In this sense, the city portrayed in the work is an ambiguous city, as both a site is heavily modernized and is a place of oppression and exploitation of most of its inhabitants, setting, therefore, as a city context that does not fulfill its promises they ran, so that hope with modernization of the city, of wich both the rural exodus and migrations are examples, gives way to disillusionment with the direction socially exclusive that the modern city took. It is intended, with support from specialized literature on the dialogue between modern art forms (TELES, 1983) and the question city/literature (GOMES, 1994) and (ROLNIK, 2004), wich check for modes literature dialogues with other art form while that records the above-mentioned process of disenchantment with respect to the promises of the city.