Modos de ser poeta brasileiro nos anos 1920: uma leitura do diálogo epistolar de Carlos & Mário

Abstract

This dissertation presents a reading of the correspondence between the writers Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Mario de Andrade from 1924 to 1929, during the Modernism period, highlighting the identity assertion from the Brazilian poet in relation to nationalism. The mentioned correspondence is approached as an epistolary dialogue and it is chronologically analised relating the topics of literary works of both writers. The exchange of opinions between the writers about their own original texts is one of the focus of the reading presented here, including commentaries about Alguma poesia, published in 1930 by Carlos Drummond de Andrade. The letters are associated by the author of this text to the idea of "the care of the self", proposed by Michel Foucault. The writers epistolary dialogue is determined and associated to their literary production especially considering the poetic work. Therefore from the epistolary invitation done by Mario to devote himself to Brazil, Carlos elaborated poems as answers. These answers remain in his poetry work