Afetuosos abraços e saudades: cartas de Murilo Mendes a Antonio Candido

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The thread of this reflection is to disclose, as a source of literary research, the correspondence sent by the poet Murilo Mendes to the critic, Antonio Candido and his wife, Gilda de Mello e Souza. Such correspondence is under the custody of the Murilo Mendes Art Museum (MAMM) administered by the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) in this same city in Minas Gerais. There are 18 messages from 1958 to 1972, distributed in 16 letters and 2 cards all sent from Rome and Lisboa. The donation of this epistolografic lot was an action of the essayist Antonio Candido in 2009, advised by the scholar Murilo Marcondes de Moura, who mediated the collection and delivery of this material to the said Museum. The relevance of this research is justified by the fact that the archives, public and private, contain important information that contributes to the understanding of the sociocultural, intellectual and literary processes of an era. It is noteworthy that these correspondence documents that are being deposited in public institutions such as museums and foundations of literary importance are collected, stored and preserved in the archival fund of the holder in order to host new research in this area of ??knowledge.

KEYWORDS: Murilo Mendes, Antonio Candido, Correspondence, Archives.