Modernist Journeys: Europe and Brazil from the Perspective of António de Alcântara Machado, Blaise Cendrars and Oswald de Andrade is a thesis that starts from the comparative reading of three literary works published during the 1920s, Pathé-Baby (1926) by António de Alcântara Machado; Pau Brasil (1925), by Oswald de Andrade; and Feuilles de route (first divided in three parts, edited between 1924 and 1928, Le Formose,São Paulo and Inédites, and later collected by the author in 1944), by Blaise Cendrars (Swiss writer of French-speaking expression). Having as its premise three thematic axes that approximate such works – namely, the historical vanguards, the journey and the traveling author s point of view –, the thesis points out how the travel literature and the look on the other have changed with the advent of the vanguards and is thus structured on the basis of three main questions raised by the reading of the literary corpus. Firstly, it investigates to what extent these texts contribute to the solidification of the Brazilian modernist project, by bringing poetry and travel chronicles to the vanguard scene, eminently urban. It then elucidates the ways in which the dialogue between the European modernity witnessed by Alcântara Machado – and brought to us by Blaise Cendrars – and the Brazilian colonial past that Oswald reveals in his anthropophagic ritual of building the Brazilian artistic vanguard, is elucidated. Finally, it analyzes the extent to which one can consider Pau Brasil and Feuilles de route mirrored, symmetrical works, in which the landscape and the history of Brazil guide the eyes and the pen of both poets, allowing them to read them as continuous works, as a kind of poetic guide of a journey that, starting from Europe, enters Brazil and returns to it. Moreover, since such a reading is made in light of both theories on travel literature and cultural studies, other aspects such as discourses of identity and otherness, cosmopolitanism, urban experience, and intermediality are also discussed.