Humor e ironia: um estudo sobre os movimentos originados no bar do armando

Abstract

Armando's Bar, located in the historic center of Manaus, gained fame in the late 1970s when it came to gather people who turned the place into a cradle of movements that critically and humorously analyzed Amazonian society. The irreverence was the trademark of the frequent group of regulars that sealed a coexistence that lasted until the first decade of the year 2000. Between one beer and another, they decided the guidelines for the tabloid "The Candiru - The newspaper of greater penetration of the Amazonas "and discussed who would be the next target of the ironic and humorous lyrics of the Armando Confraria Band Independent - BICA. Another movement, the "Gens da Selva Collective" was also born in this "piece" (Magnani, 2012), with the purpose of revealing cultural values in Amazonian music and literature. To guide our analysis we turn to the linguistic and philosophical orientations of Possenti (2000,2009). Gruda's (2015) thesis on politically incorrect humor and Freud's (1905) study of jokes contributed to the paths of this work. The historical cut of this analysis begins in 1978, when the Nossa Senhora de Nazaré grocery store became the bar founded by the Portuguese Armando Dias Soares. Our research extends until 2018 and inserts updated information about the Bar and its context in the historic Largo de São Sebastião. We also discuss the challenges of the current administrator, Ana Claudia Soeiro, daughter of Armando, in the face of situations that threaten the operation of the Bar and point to instabilities that are nothing compared to the glorious moments of Armando. We did not intend to present a rigorous study of humor in the light of discourse analysis, psychoanalysis, or to delve into the effects and meanings produced by humorous language. We believe that "explaining the joke causes it to lose its grace" (Gruda. 2015, p.14), but the theoretical presuppositions we seek lead us to the conclusion that the humorous content produced by the movements originated in the Bar do Armando reveals itself as a fertile transversal theme that contributes to the understanding of the political and social facts of Manaus and Amazonas.