Mário Raul de Morais Andrade was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer. He wrote one of the first and most influential collections of modern Brazilian poetry, Paulicéia Desvairada, published in 1922. He has had considerable influence on modern Brazilian literature, and as a scholar and essayist—he was a pioneer of the field of ethnomusicology—his influence has reached far beyond Brazil.
Di Cavalcanti's cover of an exhibition catalog from the Semana de Arte Moderna, 1922
Di Cavalcanti's cover for Paulicéia Desvairada, 1922
Andrade's house in Rua Lopes Chaves, São Paulo, where he describes himself "crouched at my desk" in a 1927 poem.
Andrade on both sides of a 500,000 Brazilian cruzeiros banknote
Brazilian literature is the literature written in the Portuguese language by Brazilians or in Brazil, including works written prior to the country's independence in 1822. Throughout its early years, literature from Brazil followed the literary trends of Portugal, gradually shifting to a different and authentic writing style in the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, in the search for truly Brazilian themes and use of Brazilian forms.
Colonial Brazil.
Academia Brasileira de Letras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
José de Alencar
Machado de Assis