A Brazilian Encyclopedia: the enlightened project of Mário de Andrade

• Autor(a) principal: Amaral, Adriana Facina Gurgel do
• Data de Publicação: 1999
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Estudos Históricos (Rio de Janeiro)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/reh/article/view/2106
• topic: Modernismo

Mário de Andrade, one of the most important intellectuals of Brazilian modernism, has elaborated, during his life, the project of enlightening people and elite simultaneously. The preliminary proposal of the Enciclopédia Brasileira, formulated in 1939, when the author was working at the Instituto Nacional do Livro, in Rio de Janeiro, is part of that project in a specific context. In the first place, Mário de Andrade was at that time in voluntary exile in Rio, after being dismissed from the Secretaria Municipal de Cultura de São Paulo. Besides, he wrote his text as a civil servant, involved in Estado Novo's cultural politics. In this article, I intend to analyze the trajectory of the construction of the Enciclopédia Brasileira in that specific context, to elucidate the place of this work in Mário de Andrade's enlightened project and his relations with the Enlightenment's tradition, specially the German Enlightenment.