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The Precarious Self: Carlos Drummond de Andrade's Brejo das Almas

1982; American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese; Volume: 65; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/341793

2153-6414

Ricardo da Silveira Lobo Sternberg,

Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies

CARLOS Drummond de Andrade's second book, Brejo das Almas (1934), marks an important, though often ignored, shift in sensibility from the author's first collection, Alguma Poesia (1930). Failing to recognize, or at least to remark upon this shift, critics have often fused the two supposedly similar books into one initial stage. Although the characteristics assigned to this stage vary according to different critics, its composition remains constant in their views. Ant6nio Houaiss implies this common identity between the books when he states: E com efeito em Sentimento do