A lírica realista de Bernardo Élis em Primeira Chuva

Abstract

Less known than his narrative work, Primeira Chuva is the only volume of poetry by the writer from Goiás, Bernardo Élis. Therefore, we sought to understand how the author made his poetic production, notably realistic, an opposing representation to his position as an intellectual foundation between the modernization project mediated by the interventor Pedro Ludovico Teixeira from 1930 onwards. To this end, we carried out a historiographical path guided by Machado (1990), Chaul (1988) and Chaul (2018) aiming to understand the intrinsic approximation between modernity as a requirement for progress, and how this association occurred in the state of Goiás, especially after the dictates of the so-called Revolution of 1930. Through literary historiography, we resorted to Teles (2019), Canedo (2018), Bergamo and Canedo (2021) and Buarque (2017) aiming to understand how modernist aesthetics was established as a project of the local intelligentsia, especially from 1942 onwards, since it is in this that Bernardo Élis signs up. Towards textual materiality, we are guided by the principle of relative autonomy of poetry (Pilati, 2017), taking into account the internalization of aspects external to the literary text undertaken by the author.