A Escrita Cinematográfica de Mário de Andrade. Amar, Verbo Intransitivo, uma Lição de Amor à Literatura Brasileira

Abstract

In this paper we analyze some of the ethical and aesthetic aspects of the Brazilian literary narrative in Mário de Andrade’s novel Amar, Verbo Intransitivo (1927) and compare it with changes and shifts that took place in the national modern cinematography as represented by Eduardo Escorel’s film Lição do Amor (1979). The aim to present Mário de Andrade as a mediator of the avant-garde discourse adopted by the modern national discourse. Example of that constitutes an incorporation of the cinematographic technique of above mentioned neorealist novel enacting local tensions of the bourgeois culture. This study comes to the conclusionthat such novel is of the utmost importance for us both to understand the esthetics of the heroic moment in Brazilian literary modernism, and to unveil ethical features of Mário de Andrade’ s social thinking in the 1920s. Another possible conclusion points to the importance of the dialogue between Brazilian modernist literature and the modern national cinema in one of the fundamental adaptations of the heroic moment of the Cinema Novo during the 1960s.