%0 Journal Article %A Ivan Marques %T Mário de Andrade %B Centralidade excêntrica %D 2018 %R 10.3368/lbr.55.2.89 %J Luso-Brazilian Review %P 89-102 %V 55 %N 2 %X Close to completing its first centenary, and despite often being seen in our days as naïve and outdated, the modernist movement of 1922 continues to stir up controversy. This essay aims to discuss some critical balances of modernism published recently in mainstream press as well as in specialized publications, relating them to certain clichés about “São Paulo futurism” constructed over past decades by literary historiography. The reflection focuses on the figure of Mário de Andrade, whose work is considered one of the pillars of modern Brazilian literature, not because it is the embodiment of a great ideological project, but because of the awareness of the contradictions, the crisis and negativity that it manifests. %U https://lbr.uwpress.org/content/wplbr/55/2/89.full.pdf