Abstract
In April 1880, the Brazilian journal Gazeta de Noticias began the publication of The green book written by the Hungarian Mór Jokai. Filled with conspiratorial movements, the Roman-feuilleton told the story of the “Decembrista Revolt”, which took place in Russia in 1825 against the coronation of Tsar Nicholas I, thematizing the risks of great social upheavals. Amid the echoes of the “Vintém Revolt”, the novel arrived in Brazil at a moment of intense political disputes on a new electoral reform. In a dialogue with the international news about the attacks on Tsar Alexander II and the amnesty granted in France to the members of the Paris Commune, the proposal of this article is to show how the Jokai’s novel served to the Brazilian intellectuality debate subjects such as the dilemma between reform and revolution in that end of century. It is aimed to carry out an analysis that emphasizes both the articulation between the novel and other journal contents and the use of literature as a space for social and political intervention.
Keywords:
History; politics; press; literature; citizenship