Graciliano ramos and the group of intellectuals of maceió

Abstract

Between the 1930s and 1940s, the insertion as well as the permanence of writers in ad-vantageous positions in the incipient Brazilian literary field demanded the performing of a series of requirements, such as getting editors and positive reviews of the critic. This article, combining the analysis of correspondence, interviews, biographies and literary criticism, deals with the expe-dients that writers could mobilize in launching themselves into literary life. In this sense, I recover the trajectory of Graciliano Ramos, especially his relations with the group of intellectuals of Ma-ceió-friendships, literary sociability, solidarity as well interests-in order to show how the writer used this arrange of social relations to carry on his career.