Abstract
In this article we analyze Leandro Tocantins’s “Euclides da Cunha e o Paraíso Perdido” [“Euclides da Cunha and the Paradise Lost”], was received by the in Rio de Janeiro press in the 1960s. We take into account the reception studies and the author’s function in our contemporary world. Studies on the relationship between literature and cordiality in Brazilian culture also support our work. Thus, scholars such as Jacques Leenhardt, Roger Chartier, João Cezar de Castro Rocha and Flora Süssekind are essential to understand and explore the issue. Analysis allowed us to observe that the reception of Tocantins’s “Euclides da Cunha e o Paraíso Perdido” in Rio de Janeiro press received decisive influence from the cordiality with which journalists and critics treated the author and politician Leandro Tocantins in the 1960s.
Keywords
Literature; Reception studies; Rio press; Amazonian integration