O Jornalismo de Sylvio Floreal em A Coragem de Amar: Texto, Contexto e Pretextos

The moment referred to as the First Republic (1889-1930) by the brazilian political periodization marked, as is known, in a transversal way the professionalization process of the writers, as well as the literary sphere in general. Journalism, in turn, when making way as an economic instance, making news, often incorporated by literature, an object of consumption, becomes, not without contradictions, one of the most important tools for the autonomous exercise of creative writing. It is from this context that we approach the trajectory of the writer, from Santos, Sylvio Floreal, pseudonym of Domingos Alexandre (1893-1928), to whom the struggle to occupy a place in letters in a metropolis that industrializes quickly, amid convulsions of different orders, as is seen in the city of São Paulo, becomes decisive, to the point of gaining space and treatment in its production. In addition, under the continuity between journalism, capitalism and literature, the novel A Coragem de Amar, published in 1924 and reedited in 1925, will be examined in dialogue with the speeches about modernity of the time, which were manifested in a complex way and determinant for our cultural history, echoing to the present day.