A face disforme da Belle époque: o monstruoso e a cosmovisão de Eu, de Augusto dos Anjos e de Urupês, de Monteiro Lobato

摘要

The aim of these considerations is an investigation on elements of Eu(1912), of Augusto dos Anjos and Urupês (1918), of Monteiro Lobato, whichattest a common worldview permeable to the monsters and critical to theaesthetic and ideological models of Brazilian Belle Époque. Published in 1910s,time of Brazilian modernization under the ideals of progress, eugenics andbourgeois civility, Eu (book of poetry) and Urupês (selection of short-stories)explore elements which are avoided by official literature from those times;elements as the social contradictions of the country, the spots of barbarityimpressed in history and the sordid side of human condition. In Eu andUrupês, these themes receive literary form under a frank and eventually brutallanguage which uses the grotesque and the irony to building a shockingaestheticwhich maximum realization is the motif of monster. In Eu andUrupês (particularity in the short-story “Bocatorta”), the monster´s bodybecome a privileged allegory of the History, that express the critic of theseoeuvres to the contradictory process of Brazilian modernization.