The kidnapping of symbolism in the Magazine Joaquim: the cry of the vampire against the sighing of the nefelibata

Abstract

In this essay I propose a counter-modernist reading of the radical stand by the magazine Joaquim contra o Simbolismo Paranaense (Joaquim Against the Symbolism of Paraná State). The magazine, created in 1946 by the writer from Curitiba, Dalton Trevisan, was published till 1948, a period of ascent of Existentialism in the postwar literary scene in the Brazilian state of Paraná. The monthly magazine refuses Symbolism, since it was considered by Dalton Trevisan as a literature, which was not tuned with his production and with man’s and the world’s problems. I intend to note that the issue of its genesis treated as origin by the magazine does not hold as a tool for critical practices.