Roberto Piva: living poetry in the metropolis and the counterculture in Brazil (1960-1970)

Abstract

In this dissertation we made a debate focused on Roberto Piva´s bibliography. The poet always lived (1937- 2010) in São Paulo. We studied themes that appear in his literature, discussing them using other authors; the themes are: the surrealism and the profane illuminations; the urban shamanism; the Nietzsche´s considerations about Dionysus; the artists´ views about the big cities (the flâneur which Walter Benjamin studied, the Situationist International, the 60´s Generation published by Massao Ohno in São Paulo); the historical origins of Counterculture and finally we compare the psychedelic mysticism with the traditional ones.