THE WILTED FLOWER: BRAZILIAN CHRONICLE BETWEEN THE NEWSPAPER AND THE BOOK

This paper presents the debate, which occurred in the 1950s and 1960s in the main journals of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, on the literary value of the chronicle, based on the contrast between the journalistic source of the genre and its entry increasingly constant in the book market. Then it analyzes the critical limits of this debate that enable possibility of setting a specific place for the genre within a historiography which presents its more properly journalistic dimension.