THE INNOVATION OF POORLY WRITTEN: LIMA BARRETO AND ROBERTO ARLT

Abstract

Lima Barreto and Roberto Arlt are accused, by the critics, of bad writing. Both of them were working as newspaper columnists to support their families. This double journey, the dedication to the arts, and at the same time, to the survival, raises the discussion about the relation between the ‘ordinary’ intrinsic of the work and the artistic ‘exceptionality’. We try to elaborate a discussion that approaches the bad writing as an important way to question the literary institution and the author myth

Keywords

• Inovação. Mal escrito. Lima Barreto. Roberto Arlt