Abstract
This article analyses the relation between Mário de Andrade and two generations of young people from Minas Gerais in the 1920s. Taking as its research material both the journal A Revista and Mário de Andrade’s correspondence with Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Francisco Martins de Almeida, and Rosário Fusco, among others, it aims to discuss the importance of the idea of “youth” for modernism and how it entails a new way of seeing culture and social relationships. The study hypothesizes that this correspondence, although diverse, was an essential tool for modelling a modernist self, which, in turn, was crucial to constructing modernism as a cultural movement whose values and ideas have youth as their social bearers.
Keywords:
Modernism; Cultural movements; Mário de Andrade; Brazilian Social Thought; Socialization