Resumo Pau-Brasil (1925), de Oswald de Andrade, e Boitempo (1968), de Carlos Drummond de Andrade, são obras limiares, à medida que se situam respectivamente na abertura e no fechamento da intermitente era modernista da literatura brasileira. Além disso, as duas coletâneas de poemas revisitam o passado colonial e oligárquico, construindo intepretações singulares sobre a história do Brasil. Nesse sentido, partimos do pressuposto de que elas constroem internamente, cada uma a seu modo, uma historicidade própria, definida a partir de um tempo compósito. Este artigo pretende realizar uma leitura comparada entre as duas obras, a fim de investigar o modo como elas repensam, em viés poético, elementos estruturais de nossa formação histórica e social.

Abstract Pau-Brasil (1925), by Oswald de Andrade, and Boitempo (1968), by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, are threshold works, as they stand respectively at the opening and closing of the intermittent modernist era of Brazilian literature. Also, the two collections of poems revisit the colonial and oligarchic past, building unique interpretations of Brazilian history. In this sense, we start from the assumption that they build internally, each in its own way, their own historicity, defined from a composite time. This article intends to carry out a comparative reading between the two works, to investigate the way in which they rethink, in a poetic way, structural elements of our historical and social formation.

This text aims at the comparative study of the critical and literary productions of Jorges Luis Borges and Carlos Drummond de Andrade elaborated in the 1920s and 1930s, during which time the two writers anonymous crossed the streets of their respective cities as aspirants to a literary career. I try to examine two poems concerning the city, a sign valued by the two writers, from which it seems possible to approach the ambivalent movements that both establish between the search and recognition of the impossibility of a stable identity, attachment and displacements that provoke on the respective literary traditions.

Este texto propone un estudio comparado de poemas de Jorge Luis Borges y Carlos Drummond de Andrade elaborados en los decenios de 1920 y 1930, período en que los dos escritores cruzaban las calles de sus respectivas ciudades como aspirantes a una carrera literaria. Trato de examinar un par de poemas concernientes a la ciudad moderna, signo valorado por los dos escritores, a partir de los cuales parece posible abordar los movimientos contradictorios que ambos establecen entre la búsqueda y el reconocimiento de la imposibilidad de una identidad estable, el apego y los desplazamientos que provocan sobre las respectivas tradiciones literarias.