Nelson Rodrigues na curva de Möbius: entre os campos literário e jornalístico

Abstract

Within an interdisciplinary dialogue among Literature, Sociology and Journalism, this research aims at analyzing how Nelson Rodrigues managed to insert and legitimize his chronicle production in the literary field using symbolic capital besides strategies and techniques from the journalistic field. The analysis corpus gathers 242 chronicles of memory and confession, written from 1967 to 1974 and collected in the books O óbvio ululante [The screaming obvious] (1993) O reacionário [The reactionary] (1995) and A cabra vadia [The tramp goat] (2001). All chronicles were originally published in the columns that Nelson Rodrigues kept in newspapers, especially in O Globo. Divided into four main themes – politics, behavior, culture and journalism – the texts date back to an important moment in the history of Brazil that suffered with a late modernity process and an increasing importance of the political scene with the military dictatorship. Through operational concepts developed by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, as Field, Habitus, Capital and Symbolic Power, and production and news diffusion theories, we intend to show how Nelson Rodrigues made masterly the movement described by Möbius strip where it is possible to be in and out of journalism and literature at the same time, where the borders are blurred but remaining.