Abstract

NEVES, José. The magical-scientific communism of Alves Redol. Etnográfica [online]. 2007, vol.11, n.1, pp.91-114. ISSN 0873-6561.

Considering ethnography’s relevance in new social realism, this article focuses the case of the writer Alves Redol, an emblematic personality of that literary movement. Through an analysis of the making-of an ethnographic sensibility in Redol, we reflect upon the communist meaning of such sensibility and the effect it had on Redol’s own representations of the people and the nation. Then we will confront such representations with Redol romantic aspiration towards a primitive communism but also his desire for an industrial labourization of the rural life, to conclude that Redol overstepped the city/country dichotomy and moved away from both urban and rural imaginary, a move that reached his maximum eloquence in the figure of Mitchurin, the main-star of A Vida Mágica da Sementinha.

Keywords : Alves Redol; new social realism; communism; nationalism; ethnography; tradition.

        · abstract in Portuguese     · text in Portuguese     · Portuguese ( pdf )