As cartas de Mário de Andrade: seu projeto estético à luz das “máscaras poéticas”

Abstract

Mário de Andrade was an authentic and multiple personality, an ambitious and tireless writer who worked very hard in his aesthetic and ethical designs for the modernist creed. His comprehensive view of Brazilian cultural problems led him to act with full awareness in as many fronts as poetic texts, articles, critical essays, and letters, many letters addressed to friends or those who sought his advice. Taking into account that some of the aesthetics of the São Paulo poet’s proposals were intensively discussed and addressed in the letters exchanged between him and, for example, the poet Carlos Drummond, in this article we highlight some of Mário de Andrade’s aesthetic designs through what characterized them as “poetic masks”, those masks which, to some extent, made up the majority of the intense epistolary discussions he held with the Minas Gerais poet.