To stroll and reread Curitiba: the scoffer look of Dalton Trevisan

Abstract

This paper discusses relevant issues to urban space, specifically the city of Curitiba, its disposal (urban mapping) , its symbols and images that emerge from the official discourse to ratify the popular ideas concepts like “model city” , “capital development”, “rare jewel” and “capital of sustainability”. These concepts will be challenged through the narratives of Dalton Trevisan, who has presented a Curitiba with no pine, no flowers and no monuments, because it is not his intention to present this beautiful city, but a marginal Curitiba and dystopian, populated by the poor, vagrants, prostitutes, crazy people, finally, for real men, marked by inequalities, hunger, pain and anguish. Dalton Trevisan includes the suburbs and misery of man, presenting the fragmented hopelessly marginal and exploited. These ideas are arranged in the work - synthesis of Dalton Trevisan. “Em busca de Curitiba perdida” (1992), published on the occasion of the commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the Curitiba foundation, in a way of protest to show that the city has two sides: the center and margin and that from this margin echoes the song of mourning its Curitiba of yore. In order to corroborate the ideas presented and defended, this article presents an analysis of the short story “Cemitário de Elefantes”, which allows the visualization of a shameless urban space, in ruins and in continuous transformation.