ABSTRACT
In this article I analyze the trajectories of the journalist-writers Nelson Rodrigues, Carlos Heitor Cony, Antonio Callado, Clarice Lispector, Fernando Sabino, and Otto Lara Resende. Coming from the middle sectors, they launched themselves in the profession of writer in a context of greater autonomy of the theatrical and literary fields compared with the press, between the 1940s and 1960s. In such conditions, their fictional production is possibly related to strategies of their social group, comprising both traditional and modern relationships, to avoid social decline and boost their ascent in the fields of journalism and arts in general.
KEYWORDS:
Journalism; Literature; Theater; Intelectuals; Middle strata