Contos para velhos (1897), de Bob: Olavo Bilac e a literatura licenciosa

Abstract

The work aims to study the licentious side of the writer Olavo Bilac (1865-1918). The volume Tales for old people (1897), published by the pseudonym Bob, will be the main corpus of the dissertation. To fulfill the objectives, we placed the beginning of the writer's career along with the expansion of the publishing market and the press at the end of the 19th century. We investigated his trajectory in the newspapers and his punctual performance, alongside other writers, in the production of satirical and licentious literature. We approach the use of pseudonyms as a way for writers to publish libertine works without necessarily being recognized. The methodology includes searching online for primary sources in databases such as Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira (FBN) and consulting existing documentation about the writer and his work. Our purpose is to reinforce the image of Olavo Bilac as a polygraph who also contributed to the licentious literature