Ariano Suassuna e a crítica moderna à modernidade em A Pedra do Reino

Abstract

The following work intends to analise the novel O Romance d'A Pedra do Reino e o Príncipe do Sangue do Vai-e-Volta from the dialogue established with the popular culture considering the context of the Armorial Movement, which was developed in Pernambuco. It was considered the critical perspective developed by Bakhtin in Problemas da poética de Dostoiévski as theoretical assumption, starting from the concept of carnavalization in the popular culture and how this theory sustains the dialogue studied in this work. Afterwards, pointing the elements of the carnivalized literature in the reading of the popular culture in Ariano Suassuna, it is stated the idea that the autor, by the return to the popular roots, will establish a modern criticism to the modernity according to the theoretical assumptions developed by Lowy and Sayre in Revolta e Melancolia. Therefore, the writer from Pernambuco resists, as the elements that were stated show, to the mass culture of his time, so that he proposes the view to the popular tradition as an element of brazilian feature, discussing, in his work, questions that are related to the identity of the brazilian people.