Pedro Rabelo e o naturalismo

Abstract

This dissertation proposes the rereading of the history and the reconstitution of the social context of the writer Pedro Carlos da Silva Rabelo (1868-1905) and his work as an author and journalist in the beginnings of the First Republic, investigated through primary sources in the Brazilian Digital Library / FBN. The theme is constituted by his biography, the social and literary context in which his work was inserted and the opinions of the critics in newspapers and magazines, who acted as disseminators of literary works and of the political ideals defended by the young writers of the end of the 19th century, including Pedro Rabelo. This paper proposes to present part of the journalistic production of Pedro Rabelo and his contribution to the propagation of scientific knowledge to the reader of the Gazeta de Notícias, in 1891 and 1892, through the column "Scientific Notes", of which he was the main collaborator. As well as the analysis of the volume of short stories A alma alheia (1895) as a "naturalist" work, from the concept of naturalism of English critic David Baguley, which amplifies the concept and divides it into two types: tragic and comic or disillusioned. It will also be presented the concept of "Leitura Alegre" used by the press of the time to refer to works of licentious content heavily marketed in the period of greatest production of the author, and identifies correlations in Casos alegres: Histórias para sorumbáticos (1905), book signed with his pseudonym Pierrot. This research aims to tell the Pedro Rabelo's story and produce a new knowledge about the literature of late nineteenth-century Brazil.