THE NATIONAL QUESTION IN MÁRIO DE ANDRADE

Abstract

This essay aims to analyze the short story “O Peru de Natal” by Mário de Andrade, based on an interlocution with his epistolographic production and with the reading of the totemic meal performed by Freud. The analysis of the reason for the sacrifice guides the relationship with the correspondence sent by the author to other intellectuals of the time. In the letters, an “I” builder of culture, inebriated by the yearning for sacrifice, is manifested. It is in this sense that an implicit aesthetic can be read in the short story, since the narrator's transgression is associated with the ideas of the first modernists. Thus, it is intended to analyze how the ruptures in relation to the modernist ideal, widely recorded in Mário de Andrade's correspondence, are thematized in a typically modern narrative.