Literatura, política e sociedade: um mundo de cacau, letras e tensão social na obra de Jorge Amado (1933)

Abstract

This article intends to analyze the conditions that led to the elaboration of Cacau, a novel written by Jorge Amado, and published in 1933, in Rio de Janeiro. The decades of the 20s and 30s in Brazil, marked the artistic-cultural field, with an increasing political and social engagement movement, mainly in view of the national scene of great wear and tear of the Brazilian Old Republic and the growing political movement of the other spheres of society. Likewise, the global context, shaken from the triumph of the Russian Revolution and the crisis of liberalism, also reflects on the global literary production, which witnesses the phenomenon of Soviet realism, reproduced worldwide. In Brazil, a 19-year-old writer from Bahia, who had recently joined the ranks of the Brazilian Communist Youth, decides for the elaboration of a Brazilian proletarian novel, going back to the scene of his childhood, on the farms in the south of Bahia, but now, with an engaged look and faithfully committed to representing the reality of work in the world of cocoa. Jorge Amado would become, from the release of Cacau, in addition to a great political figure and memorable communist activist, one of the greatest writers of the Portuguese language