Noel Rosa and Carlos Drummond de Andrade: the creation of the outsider lyric subject in the Brazilian culture

Abstract

From the common discursive paradigm to humor, irony and colloquialism (traits of the spoken discourse) to literature and to the songs from the 20’s and 30’s of the 20th century, the poetic ancestry of the outsider lyric subject came, which generated a similar voice in Noel Rosa’s work, especially in what was produced between 1929 and 1937 focusing on the lyric self of the samba songwriter, and in the first two books written by Carlos Drummond de Andrade (Alguma Poesia, 1930, and Brejo das Almas, 1934). This paper proposes a comparative analysis of these works in order to understand the enunciative intersections that contributed to the invention of a discursive-poetic tendency, which is common in the literature and in the urban popular music of the same Brazilian historical period. Our analysis is based on Bakhtinian enunciative theories and on Luigi Pirandello’s concept of humorism to verify how these intersections were created stylistically and axiologically.