Desenhos do conto moderno: Osman Lins no acervo pessoal de Moreira Campos

Abstract

This essay aims to develop some important points of convergence in Jose Maria Moreira Campos’ contística (1914-1994), from Ceará, and Osman Lins (1924-1978), from Pernambuco, in the initial phase of the two writers: the first, from 1949 to 1957, with Vidas Marginais and Portas Fechadas, respectively, and second, Os Gestos, from 1957. The convergences are highlighted in documents found in Albums – “o que dizem dele”, found in Arquivo Pessoal de Moreira Campos, deposited in Acervo do Escritor Cearense (UFC). The admiration of the older writer, Moreira Campos, the formal solutions for the arrangements in the composition of short narrative, the fabric of the plot, the part of Osman Lins, ten years younger, attests to the vigorous process of relationship examined by T. S. Eliot (1989) as canon or clash between tradition and individual talent, as a result of the tense and conflicting discoveries and revelations fought in the literary system – Antonio Candido (s/d), Roland Barthes (1986), among other writers. The similarities and differences between Brazilian writers in focus, with disclosure in other languages, make them outstanding performers of the 1940s and 1950s, a historic moment for many profiles, such as Hannah Arendt points out (2008), still under consideration of the poets thinkers, for a possible understanding of the developments that followed during the twentieth century.