Literary Preludes of Lima Barreto (1881-1922)

This article aims to analyze little-known and even unpublished texts of the Brazilian writer Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto. Through research in the archives of the Fundação Biblioteca Nacional, it was possible to find manuscripts in which the author refers to episodes that were part of his intellectual formation and chronicles signed with the pseudonyms Philéas Fogg and S. Holmes in the Fon-Fon magazine, an important publication in the Carioca press in the early twentieth century. Thus, we also seek to understand the historical implications of the polemic issues among the intellectuals of the Tropical Belle Époque.