Andre Gide and Brazil
1958; American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese; Volume: 41; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/335926
ISSN2153-6414
Autores Tópico(s)Literature, Culture, and Criticism
ResumoAndr6 Gide had no personal friends in Brazil; at no time did he correspond with a Brazilian author; there was no Brazilian who influenced him; nor did he ever set foot on Brazilian soil.* Yet, he became substantially more than a name to Brazilian readers shortly after the first World War. This means that his work invaded Brazil during the reign of brasilidade or what was joyfully called brasileirissimo by Alcantara Machado in Cavaquinho e saxofone (Rio, 1940, p. 65). However, brasilidade, that excessive love of things Brazilian, did not make Brazil blind to Europe. In fact, by 1928, the poet, Augusto Frederico Schmidt, sang in O Canto do brasileiro (p. 159) that he wanted no more Brazil, no more geography, no more of the picturesque. Thus, there was room in the 1920's for the works of a foreign writer like Andr6 Gide.
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