Dalcídio Jurandir e o fim da era de ouro da borracha: o fantasma de Antônio Lemos em Belém do Grão-Pará

Abstract

The following work addresses some aspects of the life and work of Dalcídio Jurandir and Intendente Antônio Lemos, with an approach in their novel Belém do Grão-Pará. At first, it is intended to analyze the context to which Dalcídio Jurandir was a part, emphasizing his political activity as a journalist and militant of the Brazilian Communist Party - PCB during the years 1930-1950, highlighting his attachment to the "aristocracy of the foot on the floor”, that is, ordinary people marginalized by constituted powers, then we will contextualize the historical record of the rubber economy crisis exactly in his novel. Having the author's political perspective on the horizon, as well as the historiographical clipping narrated by him, we will set out to contextualize the government of Antônio Lemos, considering that this is a constant character in its plot and in the economic history of Pará, due to its regency survived and the controversial political projects it improved. Finally, the last part of this text is dedicated to analyzing the representations of Intendente Antônio Lemos in the novel Belém do Grão-Pará by Dalcídio Jurandir from the study of the writings of authors of the Historiography of Rubber and the concept of representations according to Roger Chartier.