Lima Barreto e a literatura de urgência: a escrita do extremo no domínio da loucura.

• Ano de defesa: 2007
• Autor(a) principal: Barros, Luciana Hidalgo
• Orientador(a): Krause, Gustavo Bernardo Galvão
• Banca de defesa: Nuñez, Carlinda Fragale Pate , Rocha, João Cezar de Castro , Bastos, Adauri Silva , Oliveira Neto, Godofredo de
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras
• Departamento: Centro de Educação e Humanidades::Instituto de Letras
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Loucura e literatura; Loucura na literatura; Barreto, Lima, 1881-1922 - Crítica e interpretação
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Madness and literature
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS::LITERATURA COMPARADA
• Link de acesso: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/5960

This thesis develops the concept literature of urgency to define a type of writing produced in some kind of emergency, in situations that are really close to the edge: in Lima Barreto s specific case this is the basis to the analysis of Diário do hospício (Hospice s diary) written by the author in 1919-20, while he was a patient in the psychiatric hospital Pedro II, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It demonstrates how this literature has appeared already contaminated by insanity and by the hospital s routine, constituting simultaneously a self-writting (l écriture de soi, a Foucault s concept) created to defend a trapped ego dealing with the institution and a document of historical value that accuses, from de the patient s point of view, details of the psychiatric routine normally absent from the hospice s official literature. This thesis shows how this urgency has contaminated other Barreto s writings, contributing to make him the author of a literature-liberation which violated codes and enlarged the limits between life and work, white and black skin, poverty and wealth, ignorance and culture, popular and scholar literature, lucidity and insanity.