By the book: JOHN RIVER and cosmopolitanism BRAZILIAN AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY pesquisar

Abstract

This essay presents an analysis of Brazilian urban culture at the beginning of
the 20^th century. The main focus is on the works of the journalist and writer Paulo
Barreto, known as João do Rio. After a general introduction about the modernization
occurred in Rio de Janeiro from 1901 to 1914, the definition of cosmopolitanism as the
cultural dominant of this epoch and the analysis of the relations between technology and
literature, the picture of one of the most exemplary and polemic of the pre-modemist
writers is composed at the light of the concept of cosmopolitanism.