Friendship by correspondence: epistolary dialogue between Mário de Andrade and Grupo Verde de Cataguases

Author(s)

Ana Lúcia Guimarães Richa Lourega de Menezes

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2013-08-12

Examining board members

Marcos Antonio de Moraes; Ivan Francisco Marques; Julio Cesar Pimentel Pinto Filho; João Cezar de Castro Rocha; Antonio Carlos Secchin

• Advisor: Marcos Antonio de Moraes

Abstract

This thesis aimed to collect and study the correspondence between the writer Mário de Andrade (1893-1945) and Ascânio Lopes (1906-1929), Camilo Soares (1909-1982), Enrique de Resende (1899-1973), Francisco Inácio Peixoto (1909-1986), Guilhermino Cesar (1908- 1993) and Rosário Fusco (1910-1977), the writers related to Verde (Green), modernist magazine that was edited by Grupo Verde de Cataguases (Green Group from Cataguases), between 1927 and 1929. In order to restore the peculiarities of the literary and intellectual sociability in the 1920s, this research compiled unpublished epistolary documents and material dispersed in public and private archives. Guided by epistolary study and textual criticism principles, it has been done a trustworthy transcription, a chronological ordering and an exhaustive annotation of the letters. These procedures resulted in a selection of 122 letters that compose the first section of this thesis. Considering the uniqueness of the selected letters, it was able to glimpse the possibility of a new perspective regarding the study of the Grupo Verde de Cataguases. Therefore, the academic work which follows the correspondence was divided into three topics: (a) the introduction of the seven correspondents; (b) the analyse of the extension to which these documents will facilitate the reconstruction of Grupo Verdes trajectory; and (c) the discussion of the letters contents through a critical approach considering the selected letters as elements that allow the reassessment of these writers organization as an avant-garde group, which favor the observation of their epistolary relationships with Mário de Andrade and that help to clarify the Grupo Verde participation in the Brazilian Modernist Movement. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 10/00006-0 - Friendship for letter - the dialog for letter between Mário de Andrade and Verde, the modernist group of Cataguases
• Grantee: Ana Lúcia Guimarães Richa Lourega de Menezes
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate