FROM CHRONICS IN NEWSPAPERS TO PUBLISHED BOOKS: INVESTIGATING THE NOTION OF MATERIALITY IN JOÃO DO RIO

Abstract

From the analysis of texts published by João do Rio in newspapers, the purpose of this article is to investigate the issue of support in that author’s work. Besides highlighting the conception of Materiality, the (non) sliding of chronic published in newspapers for book’s pages questions the scholars insight about the composition of their productions that, according to them, would be a mere conglomerate of newspaper texts. Considering that the books are not a simple set of texts published in the columns and series, as it may seem at first glance, it is desired to achieve a question about the criteria adopted by the writer for the non insertion (and the insertion) of those texts in homonyms books. Thereby, it is revealed a conception of book that transcends the mere journalistic text and the mass culture, inasmuch as, with the change of support, the chosen chronic move away from the ephemerality of newspapers and become art. Thus, it is believed that it will be possible to study the organization of volumes and their relationship to the chronicles published in newspapers to find that the change of material support – from the newspaper to the book – change their meanings.