Crítica social no conto a nova califórnia, de Lima Barreto: uma leitura sobre a burguesia do século XX

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Glória Camila Alves
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL)
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufal.br/handle/riufal/6354
• topic: Literatura brasileira; Crítica social; Contos; Barreto, Lima, 1881-1922; Burguesia; Século XX; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS::LITERATURA BRASILEIRA

Given that, the research work starts from the interest in the study of the social critique of the human condition made by Lima Barreto through the narrative of the tale A nova California. Our research object seeks to understand how the author produces social criticism in the short story. We will try to show a reading about the twentieth century bourgeoisie. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the historical and social factors of the author's life, to analyze capitalist aspects in the work, to reflect on the influence of the bourgeoisie from the twentieth century to the present day. A research with qualitative methodology of basic nature, of exploratory character, is carried through, involving like bibliographic survey as technical instrument. As for the object of the research, this will be exploratory, involving as a technical instrument a bibliographic survey. Given this, it can be seen that through texts and surveys about the analysis of some of the main characters of the tale, the premodernist author L. Barreto, he made a masterful criticism of the bourgeois molds of the twentieth century, emphasizing the hypocrisy and ambition of population of the fictional city of satire. Taking into account that the writer brings his social environment to the tale, where it is spent in the city of Rio de Janeiro, which requires the realization that L. Barreto produced criticism through his literary works.