Sobre crônicas, cronistas e cidade: Rio de Janeiro nas crônicas de Lima Barreto e Olavo Bilac: 1900-1920

Abstract

This project has as the main purpose thinking about, from Olavo Bilac and Lima Barreto, the conception of city created around Rio de Janeiro which goes around daily in the press, through chronicles during the first two decades of the twentieth century. From this perspective, matching the readings and interpretations to notice the complexity of positions and projects in Federal Capital, from chronicles literature, the changes in action of the chroniclers, the symbolic construction of urban space civilized and modern, and the role held by the press in this debate, in line with the daily life and issues in vogue. Olavo Bilac and Lima Barreto left in the chronicles, their vision about a period of life effervescent in Rio, changed into written text a complex story of tensions and social relations. Lima Barreto and Olavo Bilac s chronicles show fight, conflicting projects, winning projects and unsuccessful projects, dreams realized and dreams postpones, what was planned, but didn t left the paper, what was and what could have been; desires, beliefs and social relations from which the chroniclers built their experiences. Lima Barreto and Olavo Bilac dealt with the city and its changes to each their own way, creating, in the press, from the physical city, desired cities: a capital-city referred to Bilac and Barreto what they want to Brazil.