A utopia do sonho: os veios subterrâneos no surrealismo de Jorge de Lima

Abstract

This Master's degree dissertation investigates in the romance O anjo (1934), by Jorge de Lima, the surrealistic aspects that led the literary criticism to classify the novel as heir of the current of surrealistic aesthetics. It makes a general view about the French surrealist movement which was idealized and headed by André Breton, and its historical contextualization. It aims to demonstrate the ideological and stylistic field which Jorge de Lima inherited influences for his artistic and literary composing, depicting in general lines how the repercussion of the surrealist ideas occurred in Brazil. With the intention of showing evidence about how Jorge de Lima absorbed the surrealistic inheritance in his diversified creative activity and for a better comprehension of the surreal dimension in his literary work, it makes a brief reflection about some fragments of poems in the book A túnica inconsútil (1938) and of some pictures of his book of photomontages A pintura em pânico (1943).