Cette thèse étudie la réception critique de la poésie de Hugo en France entre 1914 et 1944. Elle se fonde sur une conception large et englobante de la « réception critique ». Ainsi, elle envisage la manière dont l’œuvre poétique hugolienne est reproduite et diffusée (dans des éditions savantes, des éditions populaires bon marché, des livres de luxe, des manuels scolaires, des anthologies…) ou fait l’objet d’adaptations (mises en musique, parodies et pastiches) ainsi que les discours tenus sur la poésie de Hugo, que ceux-ci émanent d’universitaires, d’écrivains et intellectuels, de journalistes, de militants, d’hommes politiques, etc. En mobilisant un corpus riche et varié, en confrontant des démarches critiques provenant de champs très différents, notre travail fait apparaître quelques problématiques récurrentes.Celles-ci sont notamment relatives au statut de Hugo comme auteur patrimonial, à la centralité de la poésie dans son œuvre (et en particulier à la centralité des trois grands recueils de l’exil, Les Châtiments, Les Contemplations, La Légende des siècles), aux lectures et aux appropriations politiques auxquelles cette poésie donne lieu, à la manière de situer Hugo dans l’histoire de la poésie française (selon les cas, aux côtés de Lamartine et Musset ou aux côtés de Baudelaire, Rimbaud et Mallarmé). Au-delà du seul cas Hugo, notre travail jette aussi quelques éclairages sur la place de la poésie dans l’imaginaire du premier XXe siècle et sur la manière dont cette période se définit par rapport à un double héritage poétique, « romantique » et « moderne ». / This dissertation studies the critical reception of the poetry of Victor Hugo in France over the period 1914-1944. Relying on an inclusive conception of “critical reception”, it considers the way in which Hugo’s poetic work was reproduced and circulated (in scholarly editions and cheap popular editions, in luxury books and school textbooks, in poem collections...) or adapted (turned into parody or pastiche and set to music by various composers). It also looks at the many discourses that were held on Hugo’s poetry, whether by academics, professional writers and intellectuals, journalists, political men and activists, etc. Drawing on an extensive corpus and a wide range of sources, confronting methodological approaches borrowed from different study fields, our work helps to throw light on Hugo’s importance as an integral part of French cultural heritage; on the centrality of poetry (especially of the three major collections published while Hugo was in exile, Les Châtiments, Les Contemplations, La Légende des siècles) within his work; on the political readings and the political uses that were made of Hugo’s poetry; on the competing ways of categorising Hugo’s work within French poetry and among French poets, as a Romantic akin to Lamartine and Musset or as a modernist equated with Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Mallarmé. Beyond the sole case of Hugo, our dissertation also sheds light on the importance of poetry in the imagination of the early 20th century, and on the way in which the literature of the period sought to define itself in relation to a two-fold poetic legacy, that of romanticism and that of modernism.

By tracking the intersection of contemporary fiction and the information technologies of the digital age, this thesis argues that the narratives being produced over the past ten years have evolved into a distinct genre of literature, one where the aesthetics of fragmentation and postmodern uncertainty must confront the new realities of a digitally saturated culture and society. In order to demonstrate this alteration in contemporary fiction, this thesis considers novels written within the past ten years that reflect on this new form of textuality, namely Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis (2003) and David Eggers’ The Circle (2013). These texts demonstrate a paradigm shift in contemporary literature, a new kind of fiction in which American society, culture, economics, and politics, are all directly affected by various forms of digital mediatisation. These authors reflect an altered cultural zeitgeist within their fiction—writings which can be differentiated from the postmodern literary aesthetic—prompted by neoteric digital technologies coupled with the ubiquitous nature of the Internet. Although this topic is broad and covers multiple fields of scholarly interests, my thesis nonetheless concerns itself with a very specific line of questioning: will our authors have the imaginative wherewithal and social sensitivity to keep pace with changes brought forth by the explosion of information technologies? If so, what type of fiction is likely to emerge from this new digital environment? By taking a focused approach and using contemporary literature as representative of these massive social, economic, and political transformations, my research recalls Kurt Vonnegut’s “Canary in the Coal Mine” dictum: the writer has always been the first to notice the dramatic effects of technology on the individual and the culture at large.

Tentativas de se escrever uma história da literatura alemã no Brasil têm sido recorrentes desde o século XIX. Assumiram diversas formas, do estudo comparativo à antologia, da história autônoma ao ensaio, da história da literatura universal às listas canônicas. Foram consideradas na presente tese, recebendo ênfase as histórias autônomas, modalidade em que se produziram dez títulos entre 1936 e 1997. O interesse que tais histórias apresentam passa por diversos campos: a historiografia literária, o comparativismo e a tradução. Observou-se como os autores lidam com a importante questão de escrever história da literatura para estrangeiros e das realidades a serem consideradas na execução dessa tarefa. Desde o primeiro estudo aqui analisado houve interesse em colocar a literatura alemã em confronto com outras literaturas. Tal fato se tornou mais expresso nas primeiras histórias autônomas, que, apesar de deficientes, faziam referências ao Brasil e à sua literatura. A década de 1960 pode ser considerada um divisor no ensino de língua e literatura alemã no Brasil, bem como na historiografia brasileira da literatura alemã. Em uma polêmica entre historiadores da área, constatavam-se as deficiências das obras existentes, reivindicando-se outras que apresentassem a literatura alemã de um ponto de vista secular, objetivo e de bases científicas. Simultaneamente, começavam a ocorrer congressos de professores latinoamericanos de Germanística, em cujos relatos transparece o desejo de um ensino de língua e literatura voltado para a realidade do país de destino. Tais reivindicações assumiram, nas décadas seguintes, a forma da Germanística Intercultural, modo específico de comparativismo na área em questão. As histórias da literatura, no entanto, pouco uso fizeram dos princípios propugnados por essa corrente, ficando, em parte, presas a modelos historiográficos ultrapassados. Em meio a teorias que apontam para a construção da história e desconfiam da produção de qualquer relato da totalidade e em meio a grandes projetos historiográficos comparativos desenvolvidos em outros países, resta ao Brasil encontrar um caminho para produzir a sua primeira grande história da literatura alemã. / Attempts of writing a history of German literature for Brazil have been recurrent since the 19th century. They have taken several forms, from comparative study to anthology, from literary histories in book form to short essay, from histories of world literature to canonical lists. All these forms have been considered in the present doctoral thesis, special emphasis having been given to the histories in book form, ten titles of which could be traced between 1936 and 1997. The interest of such histories relates them to several fields: literary history writing, comparative literature and translation studies. Special attention was paid to how the authors deal with the relevant question of writing a literary history for non-natives and of the realities to be considered in the execution of such a task. From the first study analysed it becomes evident that there was an interest in confronting German literature with other literatures. The fact became more conspicuous in the first histories in book form; notwithstanding their deficiencies, they frequently referred to Brazil and its literature. The 1960s may be considered a turning point not only in the teaching of German and its literature in Brazil but in German literary history writing in Brazil as well. In a feud among historians the deficiencies of the existing works were exposed in the press, and a claim for new ones made itself heard. These should present German literature from a secular point of view, objectively and on a scientific basis. At the same time occurred the first meetings of Latin- American Germanists, whose reports evince their expectations towards language and literature teaching practices in which the realities of the target country are taken into consideration. In the following decades such claims took the form of Intercultural Germanistics, a specific mode of comparative studies in this area. Literary histories, however, did not exactly follow the principles proposed by that current; on the contrary, several of them remained attached to the models of the past. Between the extremes of theories that point at the construction of literary histories and suspect the validity of any attempt of producing narratives of totality and, opposing them, great projects of comparative literary history writing being developed in other countries, Brazil still faces the challenge of producing its first great history of German literature.

The thesis, entitled "The Avant-Postman: James Joyce, the Avant-Garde and Postmodernism," attempts to construct a post-Joycean literary genealogy centred around the notions of a Joycean avant-garde and literary experimentation written in its wake. It considers the last two works by Joyce, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, as points of departure for the post-war literary avant-gardes in Great Britain, the USA, and France, in a period generally called "postmodern." The introduction bases the notion of a Joycean avant-garde upon Joyce's sustained exploration of the materiality of language and upon the appropriation of his last work, his "Work in Progress," for the cause of the "Revolution of the word" conducted by Eugene Jolas in his transition magazine. The Joycean exploration of the materiality of language is considered as comprising three stimuli: the conception of writing as concrete trace, susceptible to distortion or effacement; the understanding of literary language as a forgery of the words of others; and the project of creating a personal idiom as an "autonomous" language for a truly modern literature. The material is divided into eight chapters, two for Great Britain (from Johnson via Brooke-Rose to Sinclair), two for the U.S. (from Burroughs and Gass to Acker and Sorrentino) and three for France...

« Nouveauté » et « violence » ! Ces deux notions sont bien récurrentes dans les commentaires sur les littératures africaines francophones. Elles sont au cœur de toute son historiographie depuis quelques décennies maintenant. On ne peut guère parler d’Amadou Kourouma, de Sony Labou Tansi, de Sami Tchak ou de Jean-Luc Raharimana sans que ne se pose la question de la nouveauté et dans le même temps, celle de la violence dans ou de l’écriture. Mais cette évidence, cette vérité brute mérite d’être interrogée afin de savoir exactement à quoi nouveauté et violence renvoient. Si elles peuvent être abordées de façon indépendante, c’est de leur confrontation, avec l’écriture comme pivot, qu’apparaissent des éléments concrets pour une histoire littéraire. En effet, en les étudiant conjointement, la présente thèse tente de voir dans quelle mesure elles s’impliquent l’une et l’autre. Voilà pourquoi, après avoir évalué les notions de nouveauté, de rupture dans le domaine des littératures africaines francophones, nous nous sommes appuyés sur quatre auteurs dont les esthétiques ainsi que les trajectoires sont représentatives des grandes tendances en matière des écritures de violence. Elles semblent indiquer des changements d’orientation au fil des années. De l’écriture globale de Sony Labou Tansi, à l’écriture jeu d’Edem Awumey, en passant par le ressassement de Kossi Efoui et le minimalisme de Théo Ananissoh, il est possible de suivre l’introduction de nouvelles modalités d’écritures et de saisir le point de passage vers de nouveaux modèles de représentation. / "Novelty" and "violence»! These two notions are recurrent in the comments about Francophone African literatures. They are at the heart of all its historiography since some decades now. One can hardly speak of Amadou Kourouma , Sony Labou Tansi, Sami Tchak or Jean-Luc Raharimana without arises the question of novelty and, at the same time , that of violence in or of scripture. But this evidence, this raw truth deserves to be examined in order to know exactly what novelty and violence return. If they can be addressed independently, it is their confrontation, with writing as a meeting point, which appears concrete elements for literary history. Indeed, studying them together, this thesis tries to see to what extent they imply one and the other. Therefore, after evaluating the concepts of novelty, out in the field of Francophone African literature, we relied on four authors whose aesthetic and trajectories are representative of major trends in the writings of violence. They suggest policy all changes over the years. From the overall Sony Labou Tansi’s writing, to writing game Edem Awumey, through the rehashing of Kossi Efoui and Theo Ananissoh’s minimalism, it is possible to monitor the introduction of new forms of writing and to find the gateway to new models of representation.

Tentativas de se escrever uma história da literatura alemã no Brasil têm sido recorrentes desde o século XIX. Assumiram diversas formas, do estudo comparativo à antologia, da história autônoma ao ensaio, da história da literatura universal às listas canônicas. Foram consideradas na presente tese, recebendo ênfase as histórias autônomas, modalidade em que se produziram dez títulos entre 1936 e 1997. O interesse que tais histórias apresentam passa por diversos campos: a historiografia literária, o comparativismo e a tradução. Observou-se como os autores lidam com a importante questão de escrever história da literatura para estrangeiros e das realidades a serem consideradas na execução dessa tarefa. Desde o primeiro estudo aqui analisado houve interesse em colocar a literatura alemã em confronto com outras literaturas. Tal fato se tornou mais expresso nas primeiras histórias autônomas, que, apesar de deficientes, faziam referências ao Brasil e à sua literatura. A década de 1960 pode ser considerada um divisor no ensino de língua e literatura alemã no Brasil, bem como na historiografia brasileira da literatura alemã. Em uma polêmica entre historiadores da área, constatavam-se as deficiências das obras existentes, reivindicando-se outras que apresentassem a literatura alemã de um ponto de vista secular, objetivo e de bases científicas. Simultaneamente, começavam a ocorrer congressos de professores latinoamericanos de Germanística, em cujos relatos transparece o desejo de um ensino de língua e literatura voltado para a realidade do país de destino. Tais reivindicações assumiram, nas décadas seguintes, a forma da Germanística Intercultural, modo específico de comparativismo na área em questão. As histórias da literatura, no entanto, pouco uso fizeram dos princípios propugnados por essa corrente, ficando, em parte, presas a modelos historiográficos ultrapassados. Em meio a teorias que apontam para a construção da história e desconfiam da produção de qualquer relato da totalidade e em meio a grandes projetos historiográficos comparativos desenvolvidos em outros países, resta ao Brasil encontrar um caminho para produzir a sua primeira grande história da literatura alemã. / Attempts of writing a history of German literature for Brazil have been recurrent since the 19th century. They have taken several forms, from comparative study to anthology, from literary histories in book form to short essay, from histories of world literature to canonical lists. All these forms have been considered in the present doctoral thesis, special emphasis having been given to the histories in book form, ten titles of which could be traced between 1936 and 1997. The interest of such histories relates them to several fields: literary history writing, comparative literature and translation studies. Special attention was paid to how the authors deal with the relevant question of writing a literary history for non-natives and of the realities to be considered in the execution of such a task. From the first study analysed it becomes evident that there was an interest in confronting German literature with other literatures. The fact became more conspicuous in the first histories in book form; notwithstanding their deficiencies, they frequently referred to Brazil and its literature. The 1960s may be considered a turning point not only in the teaching of German and its literature in Brazil but in German literary history writing in Brazil as well. In a feud among historians the deficiencies of the existing works were exposed in the press, and a claim for new ones made itself heard. These should present German literature from a secular point of view, objectively and on a scientific basis. At the same time occurred the first meetings of Latin- American Germanists, whose reports evince their expectations towards language and literature teaching practices in which the realities of the target country are taken into consideration. In the following decades such claims took the form of Intercultural Germanistics, a specific mode of comparative studies in this area. Literary histories, however, did not exactly follow the principles proposed by that current; on the contrary, several of them remained attached to the models of the past. Between the extremes of theories that point at the construction of literary histories and suspect the validity of any attempt of producing narratives of totality and, opposing them, great projects of comparative literary history writing being developed in other countries, Brazil still faces the challenge of producing its first great history of German literature.

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-06-13T14:36:38Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 9616139 bytes, checksum: 78dd370f267ff790155f61da4c96766d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-13T14:36:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 9616139 bytes, checksum: 78dd370f267ff790155f61da4c96766d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-15 / The presence of pornography in literature is considered as a category since the nineteenth century for its formal qualities which make it possible analysis that comprehend the intentionality of the insertion of pornographic text and/or its functionality in the literary genres. This second perspective makes it possible the study of the pornographic elements of satire that serves as an instrument for the critic to power. Supported by theoretical postulates of Hodgart (2010) and Frye (2014), according to which pornography serves as an instrument for the construction of satire, under the vision of the attack, we will analyze how pornography was taken as a satirical feature by the humorous and pornographic newspaper O Riso (1911-1912) in the Brazilian Belle Époque. To understand the production and circulation context of O Riso and how it incorporated pornography it is necessary to do a research by means of the methods proposed by Cultural History (CHARTIER, 1991 and 2007). According to Chartier, the history of reading and literature can only be made if the researcher take into account the practices and forms of reading, as well as ownership and representation of the discourse of a given time. We discuss here, more specifically, the pornographic and political discourses that constitute the newspaper O Riso in order to analyze the stress points and organization of those discourses in relation to the political critique restrained in the paper. We aim at understanding the pornographic discourse of the O Riso and its relation with the history of literature by means of the pornography and politics. We analyzed columns that deal with political and social issues as well as the pornographic novel “As Aventuras do Rei Pausolo” and other newspapers that had a direct dialogue with O Riso such as O Rio Nu (1898-1916), O Coió (1901-1902) and O Nabo (1900). The results of our analysis show that, by means of satire instruments and the different ways of appropriation of pornography, it is possible to see that the political criticism used pornography and, also, its inherent character that is the reader's excitement. The discourse that constitutes the newspaper O Riso it is not only the sexual one, but mainly its political positioning which was against the Republican government of Hermes da Fonseca. / La présence de la pornographie dans la littérature commence à être considérée comme catégorie à partir le XIXe siècle à travers ses qualités formelles, qui ont crée des possibilités d’analyse qui couvrent l’intentionnalité de l’insertion du texte pornographique et/ou sa fonctionnalité dans les genres littéraires. Cette seconde perspective possibilite l’étude des éléments pornographiques de la satire, qui servent d’instrument de critique au pouvoir. Basés sur des études théoriques de Hodgart (2010) et Frye (2014), selon lesquelles la pornographie joue le rôle d’instrument pour la construction de la satire, vue par le point de vue de l’attaque, nous voulons analyser comment la pornographie a été prise comme recours satirique par le journal humoristique et pornographique O Riso (1911-1912) à la Belle Époque brésilienne. Pour comprendre le contexte de production et circulation de O Riso et, par conséquent, comment celui-ci s’est approprié de la pornographie, il faut que nous réalisons une recherche par le biais des méthodes proposées par le domaine l’Histoire Culturelle (CHARTIER, 1991 et 2007), selon lequel l’histoire de la lecture et de la littérature ne se fait que si le chercheur prend en compte les pratiques et les modes de lecture, ainsi que l’appropriation et la représentation du discours d’une époque donnée. Notre discussion aborde, de façon plus spécifique, les discours pornografiques et politiques qui ont constitué le journal O Riso pour analyser les points de tension et d’organisation de ces discours en relation à la critique politique qui se présente dans le journal. Le but de notre recherche est de comprendre le discours pornografique dans le journal O Riso et sa relation avec l’histoire de la littérature à travers la pornographie et la politique. Notre corpus est composé par des colonnes qui traitaient des questions socio-politiques et le feuilleton pornographique «As aventuras do Rei Pausolo» présents dans O Riso, en outre, il y a d’autres journaux qui ont gardé un dialogue direct avec O Riso, tels que O Rio Nu (1898-1916), O Coió (1901-1902) et O Nabo(1900). Les résultats de notre analyse montrent que, à travers les instruments de satire et les différents moyens d’appropriations de la pornographie, c’est possible d’apercevoir que la pornographie était à service de la critique politique, en plus de son caractère inhérent qui c’est l’excitation du lecteur. En ce sens, le discours qui constitue le journal O Riso ce n’est pas seulement celui de la sexualité, mais (et principalement) celui du positionnement politique contraire au gouvernement républicain d’Hermes da Fonseca. / A presença da pornografia na literatura passa a ser considerada como categoria a partir do século XIX através de suas qualidades formais, que criam possibilidades de análise que abrangem a intencionalidade da inserção do texto pornográfico e/ou a sua funcionalidade nos gêneros literários. Esse segunda possibilidade dá margem ao estudo dos elementos pornográficos da sátira, que servem de instrumento de crítica ao poder. Amparados em postulados teóricos de Hodgart (2010) e Frye (2014), segundo os quais a pornografia serve se instrumento para construção da sátira, vista pela ótica do ataque, buscaremos analisar de que modo a pornografia foi tomada como recurso satírico pelo jornal humorístico e pornográfico O Riso (1911-1912) na Belle Époque brasileira. Para compreender o contexto de produção e circulação de O Riso e, consequentemente, como este se apropriou da pornografia, é necessário realizar uma investigação por meio dos métodos propostos pela História Cultural (CHARTIER, 1991 e 2007), segundo o qual a história da leitura e da literatura só se faz se o pesquisador levar em consideração as práticas e os modos de leitura, assim como a apropriação e a representação do discurso de uma dada época. Nossa discussão aborda, de modo mais específico, os discursos pornográficos e políticos que constituíram o jornal O Riso para analisar os pontos de tensão e organização destes discursos em relação à crítica política presente no impresso. O objetivo de nossa pesquisa é compreender o discurso pornográfico no jornal O Riso e a sua relação com a história da literatura por meio da pornografia e da política. Nosso corpus é formado por colunas que tratavam de questões político-sociais e o romance folhetim pornográfico “As Aventuras do Rei Pausolo” presentes n’O Riso, além de outros impressos que mantiveram um diálogo direto com o jornal, a saber: O Rio Nu (1898-1916), O Coió (1901-1902) e O Nabo (1900). Os resultados de nossa análise mostram que, através dos instrumentos da sátira e os diferentes modos de apropriação da pornografia, é possível perceber que a esta estava a serviço da crítica política, além do seu caráter inerente que é a excitação do leitor. Nesse sentido, o discurso que constitui o jornal O Riso não é apenas o da sexualidade, mas (e principalmente) o do posicionamento político contrário ao governo republicano de Hermes da Fonseca.

The development of the novel cannot be separated from discussions about literary history, gender relations, performance, and the power literature has to instruct its audience. Women and young people have always comprised a substantial part of the novel’s readership, and this makes them powerful. The history of the novel is the history of dangerous literature; it is the history of works that have enchanted readers with “the power of example,” as Samuel Johnson wrote in the eighteenth century, that can lead them to change their behavior. This thesis explores how women in young adult literature—in the eighteenth century through Frances Burney’s Evelina (1778) and today through Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games (2008)—use performance and vision to reveal and resist the social systems that try to define them. Evelina and Katniss, the heroines of these novels, provide their readers with examples of behaving in ways different than the normative model. Their stories, and the young women who read their stories, threaten the established social order of their worlds. The creative addition to this thesis provides readers with another young heroine who uses her powers, in a fantastical world, to reveal and resist the structures in her life.

Orientador: Francisco Foot Hardman / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T07:40:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tonin_FabianaBigaton_M.pdf: 2728011 bytes, checksum: d9450494f653687519fda08b64af3a7a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Este trabalho elabora uma edição dos dois primeiros volumes das memórias de Alberto Rangel, intituladas Águas Revessas. Fez-se o estabelecimento do texto, através da conferência com os originais depositados no CEDAE/IEL. Também foi elaborado um breve estudo sobre cada um dos livros, bem como uma análise preliminar sobre a construção da memória nessa obra. Assim, foram feitas pesquisas e leituras dos principais textos do autor, a fim de se analisar o estilo e o papel que essa obra pode ocupar no panorama literário brasileiro. Manteve-se, contudo, a atenção concentrada edição e na leitura atenta dos dois volumes apresentados nos anexos. Vale ressaltar a importância da recuperação da obra do autor através desses textos que permanecem inéditos e desconhecidos. Através deles, pode-se enriquecer a produção literária brasileira do século X, destacando-se a qualidade de uma obra de caráter memorialístico. / Abstract: This dissertation elaborates an edition of the first two volumes of memoirs of Alberto Rangel named Águas Revessas. The text was established through the comparison with the originals deposited in CEDAE / IEL. A brief study on each book by Rangel and a preliminary analysis on the construction of the memoir in the author's work were also conducted. Therefore, research and readings of the major texts of the author were also done in order to analyze the style and the importance of this work in the Brazilian literary scenario. However, the scope focused on the reading and editing of the volumes, which are presented in the in annexes. The importance of restoring the work of the author through those texts that are unpublished and almost unknown is noteworthy. Through these texts, the Brazilian literary production of the twentieth century can be enriched, highlighting the quality of a work with memorial character. / Mestrado / Mestre em Teoria e História Literária

Esta dissertação, composta de três volumes (I. Biografia; II. Seleção de textos; e III. Catálogo bibliográfico), tem como objetivo resgatar a figura do escritor mineiro Jurandir Ferreira (1905-1997), contextualizando-o no cenário cultural de Poços de Caldas, cidade em que nasceu e residiu a maior parte da vida. Baseia-se para tanto em uma pesquisa de campo desenvolvida entre 1998 e 2005 (durante a Iniciação Científica e parte do Mestrado), composta basicamente de três etapas: 1. Consulta ao acervo do escritor; 2. Reunião e organização de textos de e sobre ele dispersos em periódicos; e 3. Entrevistas com escritores, amigos e familiares do autor. A literatura na estância balneária de Poços tardou a ultrapassar as ralas manifestações de jornal, devido, em grande parte, a uma cultura de entretenimento que os cassinos instalaram por lá. O primeiro romance só apareceu em 1948, com a edição de O céu entre montanhas, de Jurandir Ferreira. O autor incluído entre Os 18 melhores contos do Brasil, editado pela Bloch em 1968 publicou ainda coletâneas de contos, crônicas e poesias, além de um segundo romance e da novela Um ladrão de guarda-chuvas, que lhe valeu o Prêmio Guimarães Rosa de 1994. Do conjunto de sua obra onze títulos publicados em geral por editoras paulistas, como Martins, Saraiva e Duas Cidades destacam-se as crônicas, traçadas com estilo leve e seguro, que compõem o painel de uma vila interiorana, com sua gente, seus costumes e suas transformações. Ao refazer o percurso da vida intelectual de Jurandir Ferreira, nota-se que, paralelamente à carreira de escritor, ele se empenhou em construir um sistema literário orgânico em Poços, podendo ser considerado, pelo seu enorme esforço, o principal divulgador da literatura moderna naquelas regiões montanhosas. / This dissertation, composed of three volumes (I. Biography; II. Selection of texts; and III. Bibliographical catalog), aims to rescue the writer\'s personality of Jurandir Ferreira (1905-1997), bring him in to the cultural scenery context of Poços of Caldas, city he was born and lived most part of his life. This work was based in the field research developed between 1998 and 2005 (during the Scientific Initiation and part of the period of the Master\'s degree), an it was composed basically of three stages: 1.Studies of the writer\'s collection; 2. Organization of texts of and about him dispersed in periodical publication; and 3. Interviews with writers, friends and the authors family. The literature in the Watering Place of Poços delayed to cross the insipient manifestations of newspaper, due, mostly, the culture of entertainment that the casinos installed in the city. His first novel only appeared in 1948, with the edition of O céu entre montanhas, of Jurandir Ferreira. The author included among the eighteen better short story of Brazil, edited by Bloch in 1968 published so far collections of stories, chronicles and poetries, besides a second novel and of the fiction Um ladrão de guarda-chuvas, in which he was awarded the Guimarães Rosa prize in 1994. From the collection of his work eleven titles published in general by publishers from São Paulo, as Martins, Saraiva and Duas Cidades the most important are the chronicles, written with soft and safe style, that composes a picture of a countryside village, their people, their habits and their transformations. When we reestablish the trajectory of Jurandir Ferreira\'s intellectual life, we realized that, parallel to writer\'s career, he fought to build an organic literary system in Poços de Caldas, and we could consider him, by his enormous effort, the main divulger of the modern literature in those mountainous regions.