O cronista político Afonso Henrique de Lima Barreto

Abstract

This work refers to the relation among novels, literature and politics in the work of Afonso Henrique de Lima Barreto, a journalist and writer, during the First Republic and to how this regime influenced the author s biography and was reflected in his journalistic and literary production. Based on the political content of the novels published by Lima Barreto in the press of this period, the uses of political novels and literature will be analyzed, as a way of militancy and political participation and engagement, since literature for this author was the means and the way of achieving social transformation. The work comprises three parts: the first one refers to the Republican period linked to the biography of Lima Barreto; the second one refers to militant literature as the writer s option; and the third one refers to the journalistic- literary category of political novels, focusing mainly on the political novels he wrote about the national republican politics