A cidade e a quitanda: uma leitura dos poemas Bananas podres, de Ferreira Gullar

Abstract

In the book Na vertigem do dia (1980), Ferreira Gullar inserted the first in the series of five poems, homonyms and sequential, Bananas Podres. They would continue in his work in 2010, in the book Em alguma parte alguma and all five poems would be gathered in 2011 in an illustrated compilation of the same name – Bananas Podres,in addition to other appearances of the image of bananas in Poema Sujo (1975) and in the chronic Alquimia na Quitanda (2013). In all these works, we see the life in a grocery store, in which the poet would have been in his childhood with his father, Newton Ferreira, a fairboy. This previous bibliographic survey led to the reading of the poems whose analysis explores images of the city, the grocery and bananas, hence the order chapters. As three images are linked to the memory and the plane of culture present in the Series Bananas Podres, this dissertation proposes a new reading of the poems in order to investigate the reason for being the images present in them, the reason for the nomenclature as well as the role of the quitanda as a locus that lasts in the poetic production of Gullar. The series of poems Bananas Podres can also talk a lot about the various memories and the various cities of Brazil, and this work aims to show some of this great reason for being: the voice of a Brazilian worker and the cultural memory of a poet.