Mário de Andrade and Alceu Amoroso Lima – Correspondence, (anti)harmony and literary life

Abstract

This paper aims to present some specific aspects concerning the letter interchange between Alceu Amoroso Lima (Tristão de Athayde) and Mário de Andrade, with a particular attention to the problematic discussion about the religious matter, the Catholicism itself and the practice of the faith, subjects widely discussed in this epistolary. In other to do this, we will make use of a certain research by myself concerning this correspondence, done and organized to be published in a future possibility by the Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros, held at Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil), as part of the collection “Mário de Andrade’s Correspondence”. Thus, we will also talk about some theoretical aspects of the Epistolary Genre itself, as well as its complex nature of performing of expressing, specially within the Brazilian modernist experience.