AS CONTRIBUIÇÕES “D’ULTRA-ATLÂNTICO”

A. D. TAVARES BASTOS E O PÓS-GUERRA FRANCÊS NAS PÁGINAS DE RENAISSANCES E DA REVISTA ACADÊMICA

Abstract

Revista Acadêmica (1933–1948), of antifascist orientation, was an important platform for modernist dissemination and criticism. Among its many contributors, the poet A. D. Tavares Bastos (1900–1960) stands out. As Tavares Bastos established a connection between Paris and Rio de Janeiro, he became a representative of the journal in France, as evidenced by his correspondence with Murilo Miranda (1912–1971), the journal’s editor. Among the activities mentioned by the contributor are his contributions to French journals, as well as his role as a cultural promoter of Brazilian writers through translation and dissemination. Thus, this study aims to assemble and organize a corpus related to the works of Tavares Bastos, focusing on writings concerning the French postwar period in the pages of Renaissances – Revue Mensuelle (1945) and Revista Acadêmica (1946). The research is based on the concepts of Latin America’s specificity as a literary archive (Pizarro, 2009) and of the journal as an archive of Latin American culture and literature, understood as an “ideal source for studying the different modalities and discussions of literary criticism” (Patiño, 2009, p. 461). Bringing together and reconnecting texts scattered across these journals not only allows us to reaffirm the importance of A. D. Tavares Bastos’s work to Brazilian literature, but also contributes to shaping a “continental memory” (Pizarro, 2009, p. 357) and to the study of transatlantic critical-literary relations (Bastos, 1946, s.p.).