ABSTRACT
This article is centered in the relationship between the vanguard and national identity present in 1920's works of Mário de Andrade. The proposal is to approach diverse texts that the author produced during that period, like reviews, chronicles, essays, letters, poems and fictional narratives. Our hypothesis is that, even if his writings are very diverse, there should be in Mário de Andrade's work a deliberate constructed message, which would guide itself by aesthetic tenets (suitable to the European vanguardist theories) and by a conception of Brazilianess.
KEYWORDS:
Modernism; Brazilianess; Vanguard; Tradition