This volume brings together various works in verse that marked the career of Mário de Andrade, including “Pauliceia desvairada”, “Losango Cáqui”, “Clã do Jabuti”, “Remate de males”, “O carro da miséria”, “A costela do grã cão”, “Livro azul”, “Café” and “Lira paulistana”.
An unmissable edition that allows us to better understand the conception of Brazilian modernists.
From Pauliceia Desvairada to Lira Paulistana is a collection that the Martin Claret publisher decided to edit and gift us with a brilliant work. It contains various works published in verse by Mário de Andrade. After a brief introduction, we walk into Mário de Andrade’s poetic world with Pauliceia Desvairada, clearly an ode to São Paulo, which begins with “Prefácio interessantíssimo”, demonstrating a certain mocking and critical tone as well.
Among the various poems contained in Pauliceia Desvairada, Mário de Andrade’s love for São Paulo is always shown explicitly and as true inspiration. The city is described in several poems.
Pauliceia Desvairada continues to exalt the drizzle city in its more than 20 verses, each demonstrating its love, its resentment, its desire, its happiness, and also sadness, so to speak.
Next, we have the book “Losango Cáqui”, which maintains the same rhythm as Pauliceia, perhaps a bit more lyrical and also provocative, featuring poems that bring militarism as a theme and backdrop.
In A Costela do Grã Cão, the feminine figure takes a bit more prominence in Mário de Andrade’s poems, where he navigates between tender love and voluptuous love.
In the book Café, we follow the story of decadence written in the form of an opera.
Lira Paulistana is the last book that composes this work edited by Martin Claret. As the name suggests, it is an ode to the drizzle city, the bars, the narrow streets, the seamstresses… Lira Paulistana gifts the city of São Paulo with beautiful poems that even bring us to tears, just like that happiness of recognizing its streets and neighborhoods in each of the poems that make up Lira Paulista.
Lira Paulistana, if it wasn’t already clear in the previous books, brings a true work of love for São Paulo.
An absolutely unmissable work!
This review is just to demonstrate the immense care and dedication that the publisher had in editing this wonderful book, which has a hardcover, a red satin bookmark, pleasant font, and yellowed paper.
Jeffa Koontz
Literary Critic
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