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Body. Space. Sensitivity. History.
This research is a study of human corporeity through and in space (public and private), based on the work of the Brazilian writer Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto (1881-1922). The objective is to analyze how Lima Barreto's perceptions of the imagined, constructed and desired body allowed the writer to discuss the social tensions of an era and create perceptions about the narrated, lived and architected spaces in his time, in the city of Rio de Janeiro during the First Republic. Debates on the history of the body and sensibilities guide theoretical discussions of this work, where a dialogue is maintained with the research of David Le Breton, Georges Vigarello, Ervin Goffman, Jean Jacques Courtine and Claudine Haroche. Articulation added to spatial discussions, developed by Yi-Fu Tuan, Michel de Certeau and Tim Ingold. The sources mobilized in the development of the thesis are articles, chronicles, short stories, novels, correspondence (active and passive) and Barreto's diaries. The cartographic method is used for the sources critical reading, particularly the debate developed by Suely Rolnick in her sentimental Cartography. The time frame of the research begins in 1900, based on the time of writing of Lima Barreto's first notes in the notebooks that made up his intimate Diary, and ends in 1922, the year that marks the writer's death.