O pampa revisitado : em dia com Alcides Maya

Abstract

Almost a hundred years later, this present work celebrates the reediting of Alcides Maya’s literary production. As a writer, Alcides Maya represents the Brazilian literature and that of Rio Grande do Sul State. As an author of fictional books, he also had a militant participation in the press and was one of the first literary critics in Rio Grande do Sul. As a narrator, Alcides Maya brought the influences of the Rio Platense cultures into the Brazilian literature. In his critical rendering, Maya announced the European culture, being faithful to the nationalist project on promoting Brazil’s intellectual growth. As it reads in his literary work, Maya was a comparatist “avant la lettre” who performed the role of an intercultural mediator. The importance of his work lies on the updated issues that he dealt with, as violence in the countryside and the land issue.