Álvaro Lins: o crítico e suas fronteiras

Abstract

This work analyzes the Álvaro Lins criticism, who if inserts in an historical moment important of the literature in Brazil; of a side, a cientifical criticism become still attached to the ideological values defended by José Veríssimo, of another one, critical to be born form the courses of Letters of the universities just-established in the country, endowed with an academic positioning.The present research looks for to demonstrate as Alvaro Lins develops its criticism proper way of in the baseboards of periodicals to melt literature with other areas of the knowledge, as sociology, the philosophy, the politics and the religion, searching, basically, to promote the formation of the reader. The boarding of its criticism thought is made from the quarrel on the positioning of critical of baseboard and the workmanship of Lins; of the entailing of the critical workmanship of Alvaro Lins - mainly in the series of the Periodical of the Critical one - with its time; of the definition, for the criticism, of a proper method of analysis that searchs a balance between impressionism and the dogmatism front to the literary compositions; of a reflection on the way of critical boarding, as well as its relation a criticism one enters come back toward the reason - construction of a code of values and a language of deep impressionist. Looking for to understand the process literary, without constructing a history of literature, the criticism I acquired a unit of thought, from three co-ordinated that they mark the critical position of Alvaro Lins: a essencialist or impressionist, another more contextual or philosophical and another one, still, that it mixes the essencialism and the cultural conditioning of the workmanships