RESONANCES OF TOLSTOY'S THOUGHTS IN BRAZILIAN LITERARY JOURNALISM (1909-1922)

Authors

  • Joachin Azevedo Neto Universidade de Pernambuco-UPE/Campus Petrolina
  • Mylena Lima Queiroz Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura e Interculturalidade da UEPB.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48075/rlhm.v13i22.17080

Keywords:

Literary history, Intellectual History, First Republic

Abstract

The present work aims to discuss the resonance of the thought of the Russian writer Leon Tolstoy (1828-1910) among the intellectuals who collaborated with Brazilian literary journalism, especially the Rio newspaper A Careta. Count Tolstoy, in several of his libels, began to attack the authoritarianism of Russian autocracy, the social contradictions that accompanied modernity, and claim for the redistribution of land in his country. In the Belle Époque tropical, Brazilian writers had to reflect on a similar context. In these terms, we propose an analysis of the resonances of Tolstoism - which advocates the valorization and mystical communion with marginalized social subjects - in the national journalistic and fictional prose such as these are found in texts by José Veríssimo (1857-1916), Fábio Luz (1864-1931 ), Curvelo de Mendonça (1870-1914) and Lima Barreto (1881-1922).

Author Biographies

  • Joachin Azevedo Neto, Universidade de Pernambuco-UPE/Campus Petrolina
    Doutor em História Cultural pela UFSC. Professor Adjunto de Historiografia na Universidade de Pernambuco/UPE/Campus Petrolina.
  • Mylena Lima Queiroz, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura e Interculturalidade da UEPB.
    Mestrada em Literatura pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura e Interculuralidade da Unversidade Estadual da Paraíba - UEPB. Bolsista pela CAPES. Membro do Grupo de Estudos Litterasofia - Hemernêutica literária em diálogo com a Literatura e a Filosofia.

Published

31/12/2017

Issue

Section

PESQUISA EM LETRAS NO CONTEXTO LATINO-AMERICANO E LITERATURA, ENSINO E CULTURA

How to Cite

AZEVEDO NETO, Joachin; QUEIROZ, Mylena Lima. RESONANCES OF TOLSTOY’S THOUGHTS IN BRAZILIAN LITERARY JOURNALISM (1909-1922). Journal of Literature, History and Memory, [S. l.], v. 13, n. 22, p. 239–251, 2017. DOI: 10.48075/rlhm.v13i22.17080. Disponível em: https://saber.unioeste.br/index.php/rlhm/article/view/17080. Acesso em: 16 sep. 2026.