"SÃO PAULO-SAMPA-SP": THE MULTIPLE FACES OF THE METROPOLIS

Authors

  • Paulo Cezar Konzen

Keywords:

Literatura, Música, São Paulo, Literatura Comparada.

Abstract

The city is a symbol of human sociability , meeting place and common life - and in this sense , their model is the Greek polis . But it is also a symbol of human diversity , in which masses of people live who do not know , do not recognize or even hostile to , and here the model is not the Greek city , but Babel. The perceptions of the city built in songs and literary texts are in agreement with the adjectives that easily come to mind when one thinks of São Paulo: bumpy, sprawling, dizzying. São Paulo does not provoke admiration, as elsewhere - at least not in the word admiration is benign and gentle . Causes astonishment, this feeling that overcomes the admiration in fright - a result of gigantism, the omnipresent sense of urgency, the unsettling awareness of being in an urban labyrinth that extends to infinity. This research aims to highlight that forms the largest Brazilian metropolis is described both in music and Brazilian literature , at which point it will be possible to establish directions for the different readings of urban space.

Published

01/01/2000

Issue

Section

Estudos Literários

How to Cite

KONZEN, Paulo Cezar. "SÃO PAULO-SAMPA-SP": THE MULTIPLE FACES OF THE METROPOLIS. Línguas & Letras, [S. l.], v. 14, n. 26, 2000. Disponível em: https://saber.unioeste.br/index.php/linguaseletras/article/view/9291. Acesso em: 14 oct. 2026.