A ficção do novo jornalismo nos livros-reportagem de Caco Barcellos e Fernando Morais

Abstract

Literary journalism narratives began gaining momentum with New Journalism at the end of the Nineteen-fifties and the beginning of the Sixties, modifying information's textual construction, especially in newspapers and magazines. The formula caught on with a legion of journalists all over the world, who sought and still seek support for their nonfiction narratives in the world of literature though New Journalism often combines fact and fiction, making this writing a hybrid of the two. Many Brazilian journalists also use New Journalism as the foundation for their extended reportage. This work intends to identify the fiction of New Journalism in book-length reports by two highly respected Brazilian journalists, Caco Barcellos and Fernando Morais. Based on this, the study seeks to question what genre we are dealing with, influenced as it is by the fiction of New Journalism; that works with tools of historical research like exhaustive investigation of documents and an approach that focuses on real events; that structures its narrative using literary techniques like the novel format and detailed description of scenes and, at the same time, presents itself as a textual narrative built solidly on the foundations of journalism, in other words, as a reflection of reality, of truth.