Graciliano Ramos (anti)modernista? Um autor entre a Literatura do Norte e do Sul

Abstract

The man stuck in the past was the other to whom modernists called strange. The universalism of the movement ranged from the fierce critic to the promising talent established in a distant land. Graciliano Ramos (1892-1953) could not be understood as anti-modernist, because his life can’t be dissociated from the time. Incredible the effort to stay up to date with the new developments brought about by modernism. Its integration into the Brazilian literary field can be understood as the result of this effort in conjunction with the modernization process of the contemporary publishing market in the 1930s. Augusto Frederico Schmidt, Gastão Cruls and Agripino Grieco stood out among agents who conceived a multifaceted literary field in the middle in a lot of political transformations and coexistence between ideological extremes. Graciliano Ramos was arrested and wrote about it, but surrendered to Vargas populism in the end. Revolutionary impetus materialized in his books, claimes for space in brazilian’s coletive memory about socialism movement.