Serafim Ponte Grande, by Oswald de Andrade: a rejection to formal fixedity and exaltation to experimentation

Abstract

This paper consists of a bibliographical research whose objective is to present an analysis of Serafim Ponte Grande (1933), by Oswald de Andrade, in order to highlight the writer's aversion to the fixed forms of literary production that existed before Modernism, which, according to Alfredo Bosi, in Historia Concisa da Literatura Brasileira (1985), began to undergo radical innovations only with Oswald de Andrade and other writers like Manuel Bandeira and Mário de Andrade. It will also be sought to expose some aspects of the literary work that explain the taste for experimentation related to new forms of expression that Oswald de Andrade possessed. The idea of breaking with the literary schools by attacking them was a way of producing literature adopted by the writer in question who, influenced by the European vanguards, proposed the origin of an art that would break away from the foreign culture and then create a nationalist culture. According to Leyla Perrone-Moisés (1990), this whole process of Oswald's artistic production is characterized like "cultural anthropophagy", a concept to be observed and exemplified by the reading, interpretation and analysis of Serafim Ponte Grande and the Oswaldian criticism itself.