Poesia depois da catástrofe: uma leitura do poema “O sobrevivente”, de Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Abstract

The article develops a critical reading of the poem “O sobrevivente”, by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, examining the testimonial dimension of his poetry, linked the lute for the erosion of poetic language in the face of violence and reification inherent a process of capitalist modernization. One of the aims of the work is to identify the poem's controversial position in the debut work of the author and the way that he enunciates a conception of history and poetic making that would be delineated with greater density in the later works of Drummond. Finally, we have established some relations between the poem and the famous Adornian dictum about the impossibility of poetic creation after Auschwitz.