Oneyda Alvarenga's letters addressed to the writer Mário de Andrade are here considerer as memory-objects and relic-objects, endowed with the ability to revive the relationship of education, work and friendship by which they were united. Moreover, these letters are literary documents of a writing of itself, in the meaning suggested by Michel Foucault, by which individuals are able to build images of themselves. In this work, I have approached the poetic of itself formulated by Oneyda Alvarenga in the intersubjective networks of friendship and letter writing with Andrade. Their letters were read as documents, which retain a literature of themselves. This literature can be considered as transgressive as the literature that sought to overcome the limits of language. In the letter writing of Oneyda Alvarenga, this actually meant to overcome the limits of herself and to (re) build herself in and by the action of daily writing.
Writing of itself; gender; friendship; correspondence