Lima Barreto e o romance: crítica e crise

Abstract

This article analyzes the novel Recordações do escrivão Isaías Caminha by Lima Barreto (1881-1922), pointing out formal principles in the work,indicators of a new aesthetic achievement that does not fully accord with the realist novel of the nineteenth century. Therefore, it proposes a new approach or frame for the work, which, from the start, considers the crisis of subjectivity and the ability to narrate consistent with the atmosphere of the early decades of the twentieth century.