Cartas: Câmara Cascudo e Mário de Andrade

by Mário de Andrade

Para a sorte do Brasil, tanto Cascudo quanto Mário procuraram conhecer o país em suas profundezas e escreveram livros ficcionais e de referência que têm a cultura popular brasileira como foco principal. É interessante frisar que eles construíram suas ideias conversando um com o outro, por meio de uma intensa troca de correspondências de vinte anos, um conjunto precioso de escritos que se encontrava inédito e que a Global Editora, reafirmando seu compromisso com a cultura brasileira, tem o privilégio de trazer a lume com a publicação de Câmara Cascudo e Mário de Andrade: Cartas 1924-1944.
A leitura das cartas mostra o crescimento incessante da intimidade entre os dois grandes folcloristas brasileiros. Nas cartas, vê-se um verdadeiro diálogo de gigantes, como anuncia o crítico Fábio Lucas, no texto de orelha do livro. Cascudo e Mário discutem temas candentes da cultura e da política brasileira dos anos 1920, 1930 e 1940. As conversas entre os dois constituem-se em verdadeiras aulas de cultura brasileira. Não há dúvidas de que o leitor das cartas trocadas entre estes dois titãs da intelectualidade brasileira tem à sua disposição um bate-papo de luxo sobre as lendas, tradições e crenças presentes na nossa cultura popular.

476 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 21, 2013

About the author

Mário Raul de Morais Andrade was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer. One of the founders of Brazilian modernism, he virtually created modern Brazilian poetry with the publication of his Paulicéia Desvairada (Hallucinated City) in 1922. He has had an enormous influence on Brazilian literature in the 20th and 21st centuries, and as a scholar and essayist—he was a pioneer of the field of ethnomusicology—his influence has reached far beyond Brazil.
Andrade was the central figure in the avant-garde movement of São Paulo for twenty years. Trained as a musician and best known as a poet and novelist, Andrade was personally involved in virtually every discipline that was connected with São Paulo modernism, and became Brazil's national polymath. He was the driving force behind the Week of Modern Art, the 1922 event that reshaped both literature and the visual arts in Brazil. After working as a music professor and newspaper columnist he published his great novel, Macunaíma, in 1928. At the end of his life, he became the founding director of São Paulo's Department of Culture, formalizing a role he had long held as the catalyst of the city's—and the nation's—entry into artistic modernity.

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