Ressonâncias da crítica literária na segunda edição de “Amar, verbo intransitivo”, de Mário de Andrade

Abstract

Mário de Andrade was one of the leading exponents of Brazilian Modernism acting not only as an author, but also as a theorist and researcher. He was a specialist in Brazilian floklore, as well as a language and culture expert. Cognizant of the importance of research he bequeathed an invaluable acquis communautaire (nowadays it belongs to IEB-USP), and more than 30 thousand archives and 17 thousand volumes (GRILLO, 2010, p. 13). Part of this material, his correspondence, along with essays of literary critics are analysed as significant elemets to the understanding of his crative process and the elaboration of his two editions of Amar, verbo intransitivo. Since the welcoming of its first edition by the literary critics of the time, and as well as the answers sent by Mário to the critics themselves and also friends, we conclude that the changes made between the editions have happened, especially in response to two main essays written by Prudente de Moraes, grandson, and Tristão de Athayde. As a result, there has been a reduction of the author’s digressions and inferences, of psychoanalytic and naturalistic elements, as well as a bigger concealment in relation to the latent sexuality in this literary work.