Entre Viena e Apipucos: uma leitura da correspondência de Carpeaux e Gilberto Freyre

Abstract

In 1939, fleeing from the Nazi rise in Europe, Carpeaux (then named Karpfen) opts for Brazil as a destination to build a new life. It is in the context of his arrival in the country, at a moment of intercultural adaptation that, through personal correspondence, Carpeaux contacts the cosmopolitan-provincial Gilberto Freyre, who enjoyed considerable prestige. A network of relations was then built in the 1940s and 1950s, which would contribute to Carpeaux’s insertion in the intellectual life and to the definition of an innovative style and critical content in a moment of crescent ideological polarization.