SURREALISM IN BRAZIL

Abstract

Floriano Martins, Brazilian poet, essayist and editor, offers to us in this essay an integrated and critical view of the Brazilian cultural surrealism of the first half of the Twentieth Century, and its consequences up until the present. Here are the well documented vicissitudes that confronted the vanguard movement in that land, which were of a different nature than those suffered in other Latin-American countries. This movement adapted very differently, neither defining any barriers against established power nor representing any resistance to it.