Mário de Andrade in Klaxon From young scholar to scholarly critic: the construction of an intellectual project

Abstract

In this article we analyze the participation of Mário de Andrade in Klaxon (1922-1923), the first and probably the best known of modernist magazines. This magazine, together with Modern Art Week, represents -in the subsequent canonization of a movement strongly associated with Paulista intellectuality - the founding event of modernism, the first venture formed by a group itself which had been developing since 1917 and showed strong intentions for intervention in the Brazilian cultural sphere. The analysis of the regular participation of Mário de Andrade in the magazine will allow us to show how the author built himself in the figure of the critic, while significantly contributed to shaping the unique features of this publishing project.