Samba. An adventure in Brazil by Henry Stanger begins with the words: "Carnaval! Goodbye, Meat! "(L. 1 p. 5), after which the reader is thrown into chaos, which we later will be informed of the preparations for Carnival in Brazil in the last century. The chaotic start to the use of the power is called in medias race. The reader is thrown directly into a description of how violent it goes to the preparations for the carnival. The description will be described in the present tense, which gives a feeling that you as a reader, is Tilted during preparations for the carnival. The second chapter (l. 10 p. 5) is a hitherto explicitly tells implied by the sentence: "We are suddenly back in Brazil in the last century ..." (l. 10 p. 5). The reader is pulled out of the direct description of how the preparations for the carnival going on and on in a historical description of how the preparations for Carnival took place in the last century. The historical description flows through the second section back to the description the reader at the start of the second section was pulled out.
In the third (l. 20 p. 5), fourth (l. 31 p. 5) and the fifth section (l. 41 p. 6), one is again back in the preparations where the narrator again becomes explicit. In the three sections continued description, when it was released in the first section. It is the third section describes how all is with and feel good - even the old men and transvestites. In fourth and fifth sections describe how all goes up to the special train, to run them even Carnival in Rio. In the sixth section (l. 51 p. 6) makes the narrator again attention to themselves by simply saying: "We are running with" (l. 51 p. 6), after which he again disappears into the rest of the section where the train ride from Rio will be described. In the seventh section (l. 59 s. 6) enter the narrator in nature. He describes that he sits in an S-train from the North Gate of Hvidovre. One gets to know that he is sitting and daydreaming, and having concluded that everything in the real world is gray and sad, so he closes his eyes again and dream back to the carnival.
The way the text is written where the narrator alternates between explicit and implicit is a stylistic instrument, which focuses on the narrator - although he is line to only a fraction of the total text.
The only thing we are told about the narrator is that he runs in an S-train, where he daydreaming, and his reply: "... Everything is gray and sad ..." (l. 60 p. 6). It indicates that he is an average Dane, when he runs with S-trains from the North Gate of Hvidovre. When he describes his world as bleak and gray, and his dream to places where there is "time in", it signals that his own life is not very exciting. Since the focus is on the narrator, and the carnival is the narrator's daydream, then the dream of the carnival be a picture of the narrator's desire for flight from the Danish daily.
It is therefore not randomly selected, to Henrik Stangerup chose the carnival, as the place where the narrator dreams herself, nor does it randomly selected, that just this excerpt, beginning with the words: "Carnaval! Goodbye, Meat! "(L. 1 l . 5). "Carnaval" means "farewell, meat" (see 1st Note p. 6). This is a linguistic instrument which Henrik Stangerup exercises; Because it is totally naked in the beginning, he gets the reader to gain extra much focus on just that. He stresses that the fleshly body and leaving the spiritual part comes in the center. This can be seen along with Mikhail Bakhtin description of the carnival at the time (text 1), where the narrator dreams herself (1800s). Here are carnival described as "[a] liberation from the prevailing truth and established order, it marked the abolition of all hierarchies of rank, privileges, norms and prohibitions" (l. 20 p. 4). When comparing the above things, it becomes clear that the carnival is a break from everyday life for the people who lived in the suburbs of Rio in the mid 1800's.
Portrayal of carnival in Samba. An adventure in Brazil will therefore vote in line with Mikhail Bakthins: It is pure anarchy, where people throw flour and koblod succession, there is no rank hierarchies and norms, which can be seen in that old men just get drunk and transvestites bless the world with gilded træpeniser. In addition, describes the desire for escape from the hardship even in the text: "Top of the bottomless mud, out of poverty, dirt and the daily struggle to survive ..." (l. 35 p. 5).
Novel written in 1982 and may go under the name of existing literature - I will justify later. As mentioned earlier, the narrator's dream carnival an image on a dream of escape from his own dagligdagsliv, which are expressed even more clearly when the carnival itself is an escape from everyday life. It seems not logical that the narrator dreams of the laws that reigned during a carnival in Rio in the 1800s where the aim was to forget the hardship, because the narrator lives in Denmark, which is one of the richest countries in the world.
Meaning of life and carnival have both changed a lot from the 1800s to 1982. In 1800 the figure was secularisation of Christianity is still not widespread among ordinary people, and life was therefore a purpose. As seen in the picture on page 12, by Wilhelm Marstrand Moccoli-evening Corso in Rome from around. 1848, was the carnival, as mentioned earlier, a celebration where the rank hierarchy was forgotten. It was a temporary break from everyday life. In the picture Carnival in Copenhagen by Helge Conradsen from 2005 seen a modern carnival. Today, the carnival is no longer an escape from the hardship, but still a break in daily life. Like any other extraordinary events, so the carnival is something that helps given life value in a world where the public no longer believes that life is merely an intermediate stage of the sky. Instead, the public perception that the individual must find his own meaning in life. It is therefore a widespread saying: "that one should enjoy life while you have it."
The narrator in Samba. An adventure in Brazil dream away from the dull gray and dreary everyday life, where life lacking color and meaning. The narrator is, as previously mentioned, an average Dane, who dream themselves away from their own everyday life and into a life with meaning. The cornerstone of existentialist philosophy is that individuals choose and act freely and therefore solely responsible for the design of its existence. Therefore tekstuddraget of Samba. An adventure in Brazil is seen as existentialist literature, where Henrik Stangerup appeals to introspection.
