Abstract
Between the 1930s and 1940s, the insertion as well as the permanence of writers in advantageous positions in the incipient Brazilian literary field demanded the performing of a series of requirements, such as getting editors and positive reviews of the critic. This article, combining the analysis of correspondence, interviews, biographies and literary criticism, deals with the expedients that writers could mobilize in launching themselves into literary life. In this sense, I recover the trajectory of Graciliano Ramos, especially his relations with the group of intellectuals of Maceió - friendships, literary sociability, solidarity as well interests - in order to show how the writer used this arrange of social relations to carry on his career.
Keywords:
Graciliano Ramos; Group of intellectuals of Maceió; Brazilian literature; Literary field; Sociology of culture