Adesão e resistência a transformações sociais na ficção de 1920

Abstract

The representation of Brazilian modernization is central in the literature of the early 20th century. Some works represent adherence to aspects of this process. Others, the resistance to it, with characters that are destroyed by the novelties to which they do not adhere. In this text, I will discuss this dichotomy by analyzing the effects of modernization and the inadaptation to it in the short stories “O jardineiro Timóteo”, by Monteiro Lobato, and “Melancolia”, by Dyonélio Machado.