Sports chronicles as a source for literature and football research: a reading of the book Lima Barreto versus Coelho Neto: a literary Fla-Flu, by Mauro Rosso

Sports chronicles as a source for literature and football research: a reading of the book Lima Barreto versus Coelho Neto: a literary Fla-Flu, by Mauro Rosso

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46551/issn.2317-0875v30n2p.139-150

Keywords:

Lima Barreto, Coelho Neto, Mauro Rosso, Literary Chronicle, Literature and Football

Abstract

This text reviews the book Lima Barreto Versus Coelho Neto: um Fla-Flu literatura (2010) written by Mauro Rosso, which presents a set of texts by Coelho Neto and Lima Barreto, published in Rio de Janeiro newspapers between 1904 and 1922. In them, we can see how Coelho Neto is an enthusiast of sports, equating the sporting activity with the great sports practices of the ancient Greek world, and how Lima Barreto is averse to the practice, both with regard to his elitist reading of the practice in the early years of the last century, and with regard to the type of violence it generates on and off the field. In addition, this work examines how Lima Barreto, also in his chronicles, thinks about the role of a writer and how the sports chronicles presented in the book can function as a basis for research in the area of literary studies that is linked to literature and football. 

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Author Biography

Danilo Barcelos, Montes Claros State University (Unimontes)

PhD in Literature from the Federal University of Espírito Santo. Professor of Literary Theory in the Department of Communication and Literature at Unimontes and member of the Graduate Programs in Literature/Literary Studies (PPGL/EL) and Professional Literature (ProfLetras) at Unimontes-MG. Email: danilobarceloslit@gmail.com. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9699-9909.

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ROSSO, Mauro. Lima Barreto versus Coelho Neto: um Fla-Flu literário. Rio de Janeiro: Difel, 2010.

Published

2025-08-22

How to Cite

Barcelos, D. (2025). Sports chronicles as a source for literature and football research: a reading of the book Lima Barreto versus Coelho Neto: a literary Fla-Flu, by Mauro Rosso: Sports chronicles as a source for literature and football research: a reading of the book Lima Barreto versus Coelho Neto: a literary Fla-Flu, by Mauro Rosso. Caminhos Da História, 30(2), 139–150. https://doi.org/10.46551/issn.2317-0875v30n2p.139-150

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