ABSTRACT
This article discusses the literary tradition of decadentism. It focuses on two groups of writers from Rio Grande do Sul and tracks the formation of decadentism among them and their adherence to it. The major aim of this study is to characterize the writings of both groups of authors, emphasizing what unifies them. Since many ways of narrating modernity were forgotten since the establishment of the strong critical traditions associated with modernism, this study also aims to recover narrative modes and aesthetic cultures presents in Brazil before modernist period, such as decadentism. The constant mobility of these separate literary cultures eventually came together to form a unified literary culture in Rio de Janeiro capable of sheltering elements from several parts of the country.
Keywords:
modernism; literary traditions; decadentism