Gilberto de Alencar: faces de um intelectual

Abstract

The present thesis aims at investigating the place occupied by the writer Gilberto de Alencar (1886-1961), as a modern intellectual who intervenes in public space through writing, in the society of his time. For this purpose, it is proposed to characterize his several enunciative faces configured in the discursive genres in which he acted: newspaper, chronicle, diary and novel. The research, conducted through consultation with digital libraries, libraries and historical archives, adopted, as a temporal cut, publications after 1930, comparing, when necessary and productive, with those of the previous period. As for the thematic clipping, work, politics and writing are prioritized, with the purpose of seeking to know the development of his approaches on the subject in the variation of their production. Based on the theorists Sartre, Bobbio, Miceli, it is believed that the argumentative exposition of the researched writer and his reflections, mediated by the word in the public space, can be understood as one of his characteristics of a modern intellectual. The research also points out the paradoxes that permeate his work, due to the moments in which he justifies the interests of the middle class, especially after the 1940s, in counterpoint to the moments in which he stands in favor of the worker.