Brazilian Modernism and Argentinian vanguard: affiliations and tributes (Macedonio and Mario: a fictional dialogue)

Abstract

The relations between Brazilian and Argentine lite­rature present the seduction of the difference of lan­guages. Brazilian modernism is, like the Argentine vanguard, a polyphony that the critics try to delimit. Particularly, the novel in Latin America has been a privileged genre to mark the irreverent form of the cultural margin. In Argentina, Macedonio Fernández is the turning point in the history of the novel, con­siderably altering the bases of the representation. In Brazil, it is Mário de Andrade that puts the frame of the novel in crisis. --- Original in Spanish.

Keywords

• Vanguarda
• Modernismo
• Romance
• Margem
• Alta cultura
• Cultura de massas