Memórias de Insulano: a imigração alemã e a república ante os olhos de Duarte Paranhos Schutel (1861-1900)

Abstract

This dissertation has as its object of investigation the intellectual and political trajectory of Duarte Paranhos Schutel. Through the reading of two of his main and most prominent literary works, namely, A Massambu (1861) and A República Vista do Meu Canto (1900), an effort was made to understand how both literary works incorporated the descriptive counterpart of his experiences that extend from the time of his youth to the time when, matured by political evenings and by his journalistic work in the biweekly A Regeneração, he wrote the República Vista do Meu Canto - a diary in which one reads about the recent Brazilian Republic and of its supervening installation. For the purpose of this research, we sought to choose it, in its first part, with the intention of discussing possible theoretical considerations about literary creations and what the historian's craft can take from them. However, the part that seconded the first inicide, with emphasis, on two literary works by Duarte Paranhos Schutel, one of which is A República Vista do Meu Canto.