In search of the Lobato of the letters: the construction of the Monteiro Lobato's image before his addressees

Author(s)

Emerson Tin

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
• Defense date: 2007-06-08

Examining board members

Marisa Lajolo; Wander Melo Miranda; Jose Luis Jobim de Salles Fonseca; Marcos Antonio de Moraes; Antonio Arnoni Prado

• Advisor: Marisa Lajolo

Abstract

The objective of this thesis is to identify and to analyze the ¿Lobato of the letters¿, that is, the process of construction of the Monteiro Lobato¿s image in his active correspondence. There are the familiar Lobato, the writer and the publisher, the Lobato of the United States, the Lobato of the iron and the oil, the Lobato of the prison and the Lobato of the children. This image, however, not only varies according to circumstances of time and place but also in function of the addressee. Keywords: Lobato, Monteiro, 1882-1948 ¿ Correspondence ¿ Criticism and interpretation, Brazilian letters ¿ 20th century ¿ History and criticism (AU)