Trevisan graduated from the Federal University of Paraná with a degree in legal studies, but he seldom worked in the law profession.
[4][5] The magazine "reported on debates centered on the challenging ideas belonging to the new generation of modern artists" and sought to "question the concepts of ethics and aesthetics that were in style at that time in Brazil.
It provided the first publication in Portuguese for work by James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Franz Kafka, Louis Aragon, Tristan Tzara, García Lorca, Rainer Maria Rilke, André Gide, and Jean-Paul Sartre.
[7] Joaquim also published original artwork by visual artists such as Candido Portinari, Di Cavalcanti, Guido Viaro, and Poty Lazzarotto.
K. David Jackson's introduction describes Trevisan as a modernist innovator, who "continues to pare his stories, which demolish bourgeois desire, until arriving at the mini-story, or minimalist form.