“O ÉDEN FEÉRICO DOS DESEJOS”: CULTURA FRANCESA NO BRASIL PRÉ-MODERNISTA

Abstract

This paper analyses the cultural context of brazilian pre-modernism. Adopting the comparative perspective, it reveals some aesthetic and literary aspects of the relations between brazilian and french literatures. Furthermore, the present article analyzes the relationship between the pre-modernist writers and the Brazilian Academy of Letters, detaching the institutionalizations issues on the turn-of-the-century.