Caio Fernando Abreu and the Stories of a new era: epistolography and Brazilian literature

Abstract

As Walnice Nogueira Galvão (2008) compellingly argues, computer dissemination murdered letter and, consequently, turns it into a wealthy subject matter of research. In this sense, the wide set of Caio Fernando Abreu’s letters have been the corpus of a growing output of publications. Within the author’s epistography, one may notice three varieties of studies proposed by Moraes (2006) and, in this paper, attention is given to one of them, the backstage at the launch of the anthology Histórias de um novo tempo, taking into account the correspondence among three authors responsible for the publication. The anthology attempted to gather a new and promising generation of Brazilian writers in the 1970’s: Luiz Fernando Emediato, Jeferson Ribeiro de Andrade, Antonio Barreto, Domingos Pellegrini, Julio César Monteiro Martins, and Caio Fernando Abreu. The corpus consists of Caio F.’s book of letters, organized by Moriconi (2002), in addition to the author’s correspondence available in Delfos/PUCRS and editions of O pasquim, among other materials.