Mário Raul de Morais Andrade
Brazilian writer, born and died at São Paulo, 1893-1945. Pertained
to the Modern period of Brazilian literature. Renewed the Brazilian culture
in the first half of the 20th century. Graduated music under the Conservatório
Dramático e Musical de São Paulo, having teached during a time on this school
and having became a professor at it. Mário de Andrade was the first director
at São Paulo's Prefecture Culture's Department.
Mário created effective means for artistic education at São Paulo's city:
he organized the Coral Paulistano, the Quarteto Haydn and the
Discoteca Municipal Pública . The famous writer has performed researches
and courses on ethnography as well as folklore and, although not a graduated
linguist, Mário de Andrade developed language studies. He directed the Instituto
de Artes da Universidade do Distrito Federal. At the Instituto Nacional
do Livro(National Book Insitute), Andrade constructed a back-project from
which the Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional (National
Historical and Artistic Patrimony Institute) derived.
As a poet, Mário Raul de Morais represented the Modernism, actually Mário
was of one the fundamental movement heads, debuting at poetry with
the book Há uma gota de sangue em cada poema, in 1917, published under
the pseudonym of Mário Sobral. Within the Semana de Arte Moderna (Week
of the Modern Art), in which he was one of the organizers, his name spread
over Brazil claiming he as the Modernism leader. With the publication
of his Paulicéia desvairada (something like "Delirious São Paulo"), Mário
settled the aesthetical directions of the Modern Movement.
Together with Oswald de Andrade, another modernism writer, Mário did all
the propaganda for the Modern movement
The writer went on almost any literature genre. Being the poet he was, established
a reference point to a new aesthetical order. He contributed work to a variety
of magazines, such as Klaxon, Estética, Terra Roxa and
Outras Terra. His essay A escrava que não é Isaura made him the
main Modernism theoriser(at Brazil, specially).
Main works
Poem books
Clã do jabuti
Remate de males
Poesias
Lira paulistana
Poesias completas
Fictions - tales and novellas
Tales
Primeiro andar
Belazarte
Contos novos
Novellas
Amar: verbo intransitivo
Feature books
Os filhos de Candinha
Novels
Macunaíma
Critical Works
Aspectos da literatura brasileira
O empalhador de passarinhos
Essays
A escrava que não é Isaura
Introdução aos "Estudos do folclore" de Luciano Ballet
O baile das quatro artes
Musical studies
Ensaio sobre a música brasileira
Modinhas e lundus imperiais
A música e a canção populares no Brasil
Música do Brasil
Danças dramáticas do Brasil
Pequena história da música