O seqüestro do anti-institucional na moderna tradição brasileira

Abstract

Philology is founded in poetry because the actual ground for literary criticism must be found in the structure of poetry. Tzara used to say that Dada applies itself to everything, and yet it is nothing, it is the point where the yes and the no and all the opposites meet. Like everything in life, Dada is useless. In Brazilian literature Dada´s legacy is openly neglected because of its deliberate negation of art. Dada sought to destroy art since art itself was negative. No place in literary history for a poetry whose conception of art is absence, exclusion, and division.