O mestre de Apipucos e o turista aprendiz

Résumé

This article faces two Brazil’s interpretation ways, according to Mário de Andrade, in Macunaíma and O turista aprendiz (The apprentice tourist), and, on the other hand, Gilberto Freyre, in Casa-grande e senzala. Despite the interpretative differences between these writers, the essay demonstrates that the three works are established on na analysis of the antagonisms since the Brazil’s cultural formation, which are showed sometimes as a vice, sometimes as a resistance