O despontar do Modernismo: as poéticas de Manuel Bandeira e Mário de Andrade disseminadas em suas correspondências

Abstract

In this paper, we focus on the letters exchanged between the poets Mário de Andrade and Manuel Bandeira, gathered in an extensive volume organized by Marcos Antonio de Moraes and published, for the first time, in 2000. The book is part of the collection entitled Correspondência [Correspondence], as a result of the studies about the letters of Mário de Andrade revealed in 1997, after 52 years of secrecy, by the Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros da Universidade de São Paulo [Institute of Brazilian Studies of the University of São Paulo] (IEB-USP), respecting the author’s request in his will. The Moraes’s book presents the interlocution between two of the greatest exponents of Brazilian Modernism. Our aim, therefore, is to verify, especially in the letters exchanged between Bandeira and Andrade in the most effervescent years of the movement, their convictions about the new literary paradigms. In addition, we intend to identify, in the dialogue between these poets, from their opinions about the compositions of each other, clues of their poetics, as well as their impressions on relevant issues to literary studies.