Antônio Castilho de Alcântara Machado de Oliveira (May 25, 1901 – April 14, 1935) was a Brazilian journalist, politician and writer. He didn't take part of the

Week of Modern Art The Modern Art Week ( pt, Semana de Arte Moderna) was an arts festival in São Paulo, Brazil, that ran from February 10 to February 17, 1922. Historically, the Week marked the start of Brazilian Modernism; though a number of individual Brazilian ...

(1922) in

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, but even though wrote a great many

modernist Modernism is both a philosophy, philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western world, Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new fo ...

chronicles and

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and also an unfinished novel. Antônio de Alcântara Machado's extensive correspondence with journalist

Prudente de Moraes Neto Prudente de Morais Neto or Prudente de Moraes Neto (1904–1977), writing under the pseudonym Pedro Dantas was a Brazilian lawyer and journalist. He was editor of the '' Diário Carioca.'' He was severely critical of left-leaning president João ...

was published in 1997.''Pressão afetiva & aquecimento intelectual: cartas de Antônio de Alcântara Machado a Prudente de Moraes, neto (1925–1932)'' edited Cecília de Lara – 1997 Page 27

Bibliography

* ''Terra Roxa e Outras Terras'' * ''Pathé-Baby'', chronicle, 1926 * ''Brás, Bexiga e Barra Funda'', short story, 1927 * ''Laranja da China'', short story, 1928 * ''Mana Maria'', novel, 1936 * ''Cavaquinho e Saxofone'', essay, 1940

Translations

* ''Pathé-Baby'', foreword by

Oswald de Andrade José Oswald de Souza Andrade (January 11, 1890 – October 22, 1954) was a Brazilian poet, novelist and cultural critic. He was born, spent most of his life and died in São Paulo. Andrade was one of the founders of Brazilian modernism and a m ...

, illustrations by Paim, French translation, notes and afterword by Antoine Chareyre, Paris, Editions Pétra, coll. "Voix d'ailleurs", 2013, 272p.

References

1901 births 1935 deaths Brazilian male writers {{Brazil-writer-stub