Implicações do olhar moderno na obra de Marcelo Gama

Abstract

Considering some researches about Marcelo Gama’s work, we can note that its criticism reception has been varied, since the publication of his book of poems Via Sacra (1902). On recent researches, the criticism emphasizes an unusual stile on the poetry before Modernism, and clear on Marcelo Gama’s work, that joins the colloquialism, the humor and the social criticism, called “ironic colloquialism”. This study intends to show the specificity of his work that allows to analyze this stile. Considered as a symbolist writer, Marcelo Gama is worthy of being studied as a dissident, because he exceeds the common rules and conventions of the production context. Wasting time on the streets as a flâneur, in a critic examination of the everyday life, using prosaic subjects and a semantic universe characterized by the colloquialism and the self-irony, this poet approaches to the conscious spirit of the modernists for the freedom of creation and the denial of the rhetoric language. This research analyzes the approach of this poetic point of view to the masters of irony and examination of the everyday urban life, like as Drummond and Murilo Mendes, considering part of his work as a transition to Modernism.