O enquadramento realista de Oswald de Andrade e os impasses da modernização nos anos 30

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to understand a period of aesthetic-ideological maturation of Oswald de Andrade through the novel Marco Zero and its context of elaboration. For this, the role of the critical reception of his work in the overvaluation of formal experimentalism to the detriment of the articulation with the historical dimension will be discussed. In a second moment, we will follow the evolution of the writer's materialist acumen during the 1920s and 1930s, also exposing the circumstances of Marco Zero's project and writing. Finally, we will analyze the novel in order to demonstrate the realistic figuration of the impasses of modernization in the 1930s, based on Oswald's engaged avant-garde – the result of the aesthetic and ideological accumulation achieved.