Abstract
The article discusses the hypothesis that 1920s modernism can be sociologically conceived as a specific kind of socialization. Exploring this idea, I turn to the still little explored correspondence between Pedro Nava and Mário de Andrade, as well as the portion of letters exchanged by the latter with Carlos Drummond de Andrade during the same decade. Beyond the questions more often explored by the critical literature, such as the importance of themes like the 'Brazilianization of language,' I aim to show how these narrative elements simultaneously imply awareness of a collective project and the shaping of a specific kind of 'personality' capable of confronting the challenges imposed by the demands of the deep process of renewal proposed during this period.
Keywords
Avant-garde; Pedro Nava; Mário de Andrade; Brazilian social thought; friendship