Miss Ciclone and The Modern Art Week

Abstract

The article thematizes the figure of Daisy, a young normalist who attended a garçonnière maintained by Oswald de Andrade, on Rua Libero Badaró, in São Paulo, in 1918, a few years, therefore, of the Week of Modern Art that took place in 1922. There, a book is produced by several hands, a collective diary, O perfeito cozinheiro das almas d’este mundo, which was only published in the 1980s in a facsimile edition and was later incorporated into the Complete Works of Oswald de Andrade. In the diary, Daisy writes under the pseudonym Miss Ciclone. And she ends up becoming the center of the book, as the guys who write in the book are all fascinated by the mysterious femininity that Miss Ciclone represents. Oswald's lover at the time, Daisy died of an abortion in 1919. The Miss Ciclone case leads to reflections on the position of women in society at the time and, in particular, the absence of female representatives in Literature at the Modern Art Week. The article seeks to demonstrate how patriarchy was stronger than the innovations that were exposed at the Modern Art Week.