Apollinaire's Reception in Brazil

According to an announcement in the Correio Paulistano, Cendrars planned to concentrate on Rimbaud, Lautréamont, Max Jacob, Apollinaire, and Cocteau.20 Reviewing the lecture in America Brasileira, a second critic listed the same poets but included Cendrars and Pierre Reverdy.21 Published in the Correio Paulistano on February 22, 1924, a third article cited most of the poets mentioned previously and added Louis Aragon to the list.22 By contrast, the version in Aujourd'hui includes texts by Walt Whitman, Robert Desnos, Cendrars himself, Rimbaud, Cocteau, Aragon, and Apollinaire. According to Wilson Martins, it was "perhaps ... the only poetic work of Modernism that expressed movement, speed, gyration, psychological and even geographical simultaneity. [...]Bandeira later recounted, the newspaper critics loved the book, and the Brazilian Academy of Letters awarded it a prize46 Fortunately, he continued, Carvalho revised his opinion in 1921 after meeting several of the Modernists, who persuaded him to join their cause. Since the trip took several days, he reserved a sleeping compartment, which he had to share with another traveler.