Lima Barreto: em diálogo com a modernidade

• Autor(a) principal: CUNHA, André Mols Faria da
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/2378
• topic: Diálogo; modernidade; Rio de Janeiro; 1.Diálogo 2.Modernidade 3.Rio de Janeiro; Dialogue; modernity, Rio de Janeiro; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS

Author of a huge written production, in spite of the short time he lived, Lima Barreto presents himself as one of the great brazilian writers, living in a particularly delicate moment in the country s history, more specifically during the transition between Empire and the First Republic and the first years of the new regime. Brazil, in the times of Lima Barreto, saw itself thrown in a turmoil of astounding power. The Republic s proclamation was the beginning of a crisis continuity, that took place from 1889 and on. Having as a goal, among other reasons, to have a higher level of similarity with the appearance of an European metropolis from the end of the XIX century, the city of Rio de Janeiro suffered, between this period and the beginning of the XX century a profound reform. The modifications would increase, in theory, the possibilities of business and exposition in relation to the rest of the civilized world of the time. Such innovations were mirrored, in part, in the work developed by Hausmann in Paris. In Rio de Janeiro, such adaptation process was named Regeneração, being commanded by the city s mayor at the time, Pereira Passos. One of the most important and complete registers of such period is the work of Lima Barreto, author who lived in lived with in the then country s capital city. In this work I deal specifically of the novel Vida e morte de M. J. Gonzaga de Sá, of Lima Barreto, having as focus the use the author makes of the socratic dialogue as discourse tool. In this novel, the character Gonzaga de Sá sees with sadness his Rio de Janeiro, old friend, gradually disappear while a stranger takes its place. The number of themes dealt with in this novel is striking. I start with the hipotesys that such situation is possible due to the text s form, which is predominantly the socratic dialogue. I believe that it is thanks to it and its free creative character that the discussion of this miryad of themes dealt by Gonzaga de Sá and his partner, Augusto Machado is made possible.