Invenção autoral nas bordas dos livros: os escritores brasileiros na Coleção Livros do Brasil (1940 – 1970)

Abstract

This thesis analyzes the editorial devices created for Brazilian writers in their itineraries throughout the Atlantic, between Brazil and Portugal, from the relationship established by Livraria José Olympio Editora (Rio de Janeiro – Brazil), Editora Globo (Porto Alegre – Brazil) and Livros do Brasil (Lisbon – Portugal) between 1940 and 1970. Thus, the objective of this study is to comprehend the meaning of Coleção Livros do Brasil (Books of Brazil Collection) which belongs to Sousa Pinto’s publishing house Livros do Brasil, focusing on the development of authorship through the publishing of writers like Érico Veríssimo, Rachel de Queiroz, Graciliano Ramos, Jorge Amado, José Lins do Rego and Gilberto Freyre in the Portuguese publishing market. For this purpose, the investigation is methodologically built through the story of the book, whose theoretical basis is founded on authors like Robert Darnton (2010), Roger Chartier (2014), Maria Rita de Almeida Toledo (2020), and Nuno Medeiros (2018). Therefore, one can conclude that the propagation of Brazilian literature in Portugal, edited by Livros do Brasil, expanded the presence of Brazilian writers both in the Transatlantic scenario and in other international circuits, even in Portuguese-speaking countries. Besides, this process consolidated and sedimented layers of authorship marks, since the collection inventoried works and authors from specific conditions and printing and typographical strategies