Godofredo Rangel appears on the literary scene always associated with Monteiro Lobato due to their close friendship and the many letters exchanged between them. However, his memory is respected by great writers such as Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Autran Dourado. We propose to analyse the constitution of the literary space in Vida Ociosa (1920), from a perspective that characterises it as a regionalist space from Minas Gerais.