O pagé: o naturalismo inacabado de Marques de Carvalho (1884-1887)

Abstract

Analyzed in this study of naturalism lines proposed by Marques de Carvalho in the novel Pagé, who came to the public as serialized in the journal The Republic in January 1887, subtitled with the word "naturalistic novel." That naturalism was that? Marques de Carvalho who was before the publication of his best known novel Hortência? With this questions, we follow the trail of the intellectual behind the journals where he served as editor, as well as the debates and conflicts that involved. We entered the literary field the end of the nineteenth century in Pará, for, from the disputes inside, we see the forces of legitimation of a way of thinking. In this case, the worldview of Marques de Carvalho.