Combats and continuities of the modernist legacy in some contemporary publications

Abstract

This text is based on two criticisms of the centrality of the Brazilian modernist project, one by Franklin Távora, on the occasion of the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Semana de Arte Moderna de 22, and another, by Luís Augusto Fischer, in Duas formações, uma história: das ideias fora do lugar ao perspectivismo ameríndio, on the occasion of the centenary celebrations, this year 2022. Fischer's book is not exactly about the centenary, but is organized from the critique of the constitution of the Semana de Arte Moderna de 22 as a zero and insurmountable ground of our modernity, which would obliterate other possible ways of thinking about the history of Brazilian literature in a different way from the current one. The article responds to both criticisms with some examples of re-readings by Mário and Oswald de Andrade that show how their works still reverberate (through their failures and their successes) in contemporary literature and art.

Keywords:
Modernism; contemporary literature; brazilian literature