Salvador-Bahia, uma ideia de cidade: aproximações entre urbanismo e a literatura de Jorge Amado

Abstract

Salvador-Bahia, an idea of a city, aims to bring the fields of urbanism and literature closer together thru Bahia de Todos os Santos by Jorge Amado. Originally published in 1945 and updated six times by the Bahian writer himself until 1986, this subtitled guide to the streets and mysteries of the city of Salvador narrates the urban processes that transformed the then quiet city of Bahia into one of the largest Brazilian metropolises. Among the main updates made in an extended and complex narrative process, those carried out in the year 1977 are highlighted, when the book underwent substantial reorganization of its composition, structure, and content. From then on, the narration of another city becomes evident, which can be identified as a second city of Bahia, or a second Bahia of All Saints, from which both urban and literary ruins and survivals emerge.