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Oswald de Andrade
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From the very beginning, Oswald de Andrade ridiculed the myth of the noble savage, popularized by the Enlightenment thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau and embraced in Brazil by the Indianist Romanticism of José de Alencar and Gonçalves Dias. At that time, Oswald contrasted this with the nature of the "evil savage," the devourer of people. [...] An anthropophagist was one who ceremonially consumed the virtues of the defeated enemy. With a provocative and rebellious spirit, Oswald de Andrade was one of the protagonists of the aesthetic renewal that took shape in Brazil in the first decades of the 20th century. But the writer's artistic influence far surpasses his role in orchestrating the Week of Modern Art. Based on research that scrutinizes the contradictions of the subject, this work describes a personality that cannot be defined by conventional vocabulary. Oswald's work—critical, ironic, and lyrical, but also unfinished—and the vicissitudes of his life—permeated by problematic love affairs, great fortune during his youth, a cruel financial collapse, and near oblivion in his final years—are recovered with Lira Neto's well-known narrative verve, in a richly colored portrait of this man who inspired bold thinking for the country and its art
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