ECLECTICISM AND CULTURAL PLURALITY AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Abstract

The turn of the 19th to the 20th century until the Modern Art Week was a moment unique in Brazilian cultural and literary production. This article aims to highlight importante, but but forgotten figures of Rio's intellectual scene of that period, as the journalist Alberto Figueiredo Pimentel, who recorded in his columns important facts about that society, besides being the pioneer writer of children's literature. The text also focuses on salons where the intellectuals of the time met, as well as important exponents of popular music such as Pixinguinha and Heitor dos Prazeres. Cartography of that intellectual scene, this article demonstrates the fruitful production of that carioca generation, often invisible, allowing an opening for countless other questions.