Transits and margins in the letters sent to Murilo Miranda

Abstract

In the letters received by the journalist Murilo Miranda, editor of the Revista Acadêmica (Academic Magazine), one can get to know some aspects of the work of writers who set out to shape and spread the modern Brazilian literature, also producing literary criticism, publishing, and translating in the decades of 1930 and 1940. The letters sent to Miranda also refer to the cultural transits of Luís Martins, Lídia Besouchet, and Newton Freitas. By means of actual or figurative images, those writers evince the symbolic disputes in the literary scene, which, later on, emerged in the consolidation of a critical repertoire about Modernism. Thus, this article proposes reading and analysis of these letters, highlighting issues concerning the insertion and circulation of the works by the authors studied herein. The theoretical background of this article comprises the studies of Antonio Candido (2011), Lívia Rangel (2016), Luiz Lafetá (2000) and Sérgio Miceli (1979) In conclusion, this article highlights the relevance of the Revista Acadêmica as a suitable environment for aesthetic criticism (Lafetá, 2000), and projection of the Modernist Literature, whose dynamics is disclosed in the letters sent to Murilo Miranda.