UNCERTAIN BOUNDARIES: ADELINO MAGALHÃES IN THE BRAZILIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY AND LITERARY CRITICISM

This paper aims to verify how the presence of the author Adelino Magalhães (1887-1969) has been portrayed over the years by both the Brazilian literary historiography and the specialized literary criticism. Given that the author raises, both in the historiography and in the criticism, dissonant opinion, the present article tries to establish the largest possible number of studies that deal with Magalhães’s prose, as well as to show the status of discussions about his inclusion or omission within the Brazilian Modernism. To conclude so, it was made, at first, a path of the major Brazilian literary historiography, trying to highlight the uncertain presence and, often conflicting, of the writer in a given period and/or in certain literary aesthetics. In a second moment, there were covered paths on Magalhães’s critical work by studying his critical fortune.