Clara dos Anjos, de Lima Barreto e o romance: diálogo e ruptura com as estéticas naturalista e modernista

Abstract

This research starts from the work Clara dos Anjos, by Lima Barreto, to investigate the “between-place” of her production in different established contexts, such as those of naturalist and modernist aesthetics. Its purpose is to tension these demarcated spaces in literary historiography, insofar as Lima Barreto's work, in terms of themes and language, is not linked to any delimited context, maintaining the interest of contemporary researchers and readers. The comparative method intended to examine the differences and similarities between the two trends (naturalist and modernist). Hermeneutics intended to situate the author Lima Barreto as a reader who, far from copying European models, redirected Brazilian social problems of exclusion, as the main space of narrative action, to the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro. To help each other, we work with the following theoretical support: Antônio Cândido, Alfredo Bosi, Afrânio Coutinho, Carmen Negreiros de Figueiredo, Beatriz Resende, Cuti, Mário da Silva Brito, Tania Carvalhal, among others.