Vida literária e a construção do conceito de simbolismo na obra de Nestor Vítor
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2022-08-12
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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This work addresses the intellectual trajectory of Nestor Vítor dos Santos (1868-1932), a
writer and essayist who entered the history of literature as the “official critic” of the Brazilian
symbolist movement. Nestor Vítor worked intellectually between the end of the 19th century
and the beginning of the 20th century. He saw the Brazilian symbolist movement form, lose
strength and become a reference for spiritualist modernism. During this period, he reflected
on its authors and the relevance of the movement within Brazilian literature. It is in this
perspective that this work is conducted, covering his intellectual trajectory and acting as a
literary critic. For this purpose, the intellectual formation of Nestor Vítor in his early years, still
in Paraná, is approached; its connection with the Republican Club and with the Abolitionist
Confederation of Paraná. After moving to Rio de Janeiro, in 1890, Vítor became a member of
the Novos group, responsible for spreading Symbolism in the federal capital. Although he is
currently considered a secondary author in the history manuals of Brazilian literature, he was
an important figure in the intellectual milieu of his time. Nestor Vítor stood out not only for his
role in defending personalities of the Symbolist movement, but mainly for being the holder of
the literary estate of the poet Cruz e Sousa and responsible for publishing and disseminating
his unpublished poems. The concern to defend works linked to Symbolism, therefore, was not
only explained by a militancy for the movement, but also by a desire to contribute to what he
saw as the evolution of literature. In addition to his role in the Symbolist movement, his
participation in the spiritualist reaction and his impressions on the emergence of the different
strands of the Brazilian modernist movement in the 1920s are also discussed. In this specific
case, the tension between literary movements, relationship between literati and the individual
perception of Nestor Vítor in face of the changes of his time. This work defends the thesis that
the title of “critic of symbolism” crystallized a limited view of Nestor Vítor's performance in the
Brazilian literary circle. Although he was indeed part of the Brazilian Symbolist group, his
intellectual work is much broader than that. In fact, it goes so far as to make the wrong
impression about his critical work. Nestor Vítor was an important member of the Brazilian
Symbolist movement, his literary critical work, however, speaks much less about Symbolism
than is expected.
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SILVA, J. F. Vida literária e a construção do conceito de simbolismo na obra de Nestor Vítor. 2022. 330 f. Tese (Doutorado em História) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2022.