Historical modernization, graphic modernity and literary tradition: the brazilian mass culture in the Guimarães Rosa’s Literature

Abstract

A perspective of analysis that considers literature and its inseparable publication media, this article refers to Guimarães Rosa literature as tax codes and erudite arrays, and also a Brazilian mass culture of the 1940s and 1950s. In some aesthetically debtor as of artists that illustrate his books, presumably available for intense intertextual exchanges of years the After-War and intellectual exchanges of social thought the interpreted Brazil from the 1930s, Guimarães Rosa literature can add the intervention of items and materials identified a mass culture, of course reworked by the writer in the registration of his invention and his scholarly and diversed literary work. Can be evaluated as well, a time of great interaction of artistic and interpretative texts of Brazil at the disposal of the arts, the sophistication with which the writer, by the very fact of literature, might figure the Brazil, revising the common idea of the impossibility of literary scholarship and mass interaction in a work which set a critical analytic tradition that identified especially with scholarship cliche. Not only is the learning materials who lives Rosa’s work. Check this is the main purpose of this article.