As fissuras do processo modernizador do Rio de Janeiro em a Alma Encantadora das Ruas, de João do Rio

Abstract

The research "As fissuras do processo modernizador do Rio de Janeiro em A Alma Encantadora das Ruas, de João do Rio" has as its object of study the writings of the aforementioned book and its relation to the historical context in which it was conceived. The book in question it is a collection of chronicles of the referred author in that the city of Rio de Janeiro, in the early twentieth century, emerges as scenario of the most diverse manifestations everyday from the angle of the populations most humble and to the detriment of the modern city that is built in this urban space. This work is justified by the need to analyze the chronicles that comprise the book in question under the prism of everyday life, through the relationship between literature and history, observing the poignant charge of representativeness of the book in parallel with time and place reported by it. Concurrently the research discusses the chronicle as a literary genre, its features and capabilities in the sense of to provide a fine tune of an epoch. Thus, the Rio de Janeiro in the early twentieth century, in full and profound social transformations, becomes the studied context in which is located the literature analyzed as mode of apprehension of this historical period outlined.