The object of the dissertation is a genre still obscure to the literary studies and criticism: the interview. The project recovers ten interviews made by Peregrino Júnior with ten members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters about the futurist movement and the modernist innovations. We include also one unpublished interview of Gilberto Mendonça Teles with Peregrino Júnior, commenting, twenty years later, the collection the literary moment. Besides the analysis of the unpublished material, we develop the project in order to present the scholars the theorization thoughts that try to define and to delimit the literary interview, observing its evolution since the latest nineteenth century until the beginning of our twenty first century.