A Formação Intelectual de Nestor Victor: Caminhos para o Sincretismo

Abstract

Nestor Victor is considered one of the introductors of Symbolism in Brazil, having contributed to its diffusion through criticism, poetry and fiction. However, having taken the liberation of pre-conceived models as the main characteristic of this movement, the author assumes himself to be romantic, in the sense of spreading the defense of freedom of creation. In this work, we will cover how different currents of thought, coming from different authors of literature and philosophy, were part of his literary conception, by amalgamating trends circulating in the intellectual milieu. He is a thinker and artist who disagrees with his commitment to position himself on a platform, preferring to give maximum vigor to subjectivism. Signs, a short story, published in 1897, is his main contribution to the spread of the syncretism.