Carlos Drummond de Andrade: From culture printed to digital media

Abstract

In the last few decades, the world has undergone countless social and epistemological changes caused especially by technological development which has transformed the forms of knowledge production and the access to consumer goods. The ways of reading literary texts were also influenced, because if reading until the 1980s took place through the printed book, newspapers and magazines, nowadays there is a growing preference for reading through digital devices such as computers, tablets or smartphones. Technological artifacts not only changed the ways of reading and writing, but also made it possible for people who were far from libraries, bookstores or magazine stands to discover reading. With the mobility promoted by cyberspace, literary production in digital media has gained strength and vitality, at the same time that printed texts are migrating to the virtual environment. The poetic text also follows this movement, like Carlos Drummond de Andrade's poetic production produced between the 1920s and 1980s, and which has been widely disseminated and accessed through the available digital media. The purpose of this work is to analyze the transit of Drummond's poetry, initially written on physical books, but which today has occupied a large space, adhesion and circulation in cyberspace, on pages, websites, blogs dedicated to the author, which has guaranteed not only that his work becomes more alive and vibrant, but also the update of his reading public.