A crônica como gênero híbrido, entre o jornalismo e a literatura: uma demonstração através de Quando cai a neve no Brasil, de Paulo Ribeiro

Abstract

This paper has the major objective of elucidating how the chronicle can be considered a borderline gender, between journalism and literature, and how the reference of regional, with universal reach, is built, in some of the texts in Quando cai a neve no Brasil: crônicas (2004), by Paulo Ribeiro, author from Rio Grande do Sul. This research also tries to demonstrate how the chronicle, a genre of imprecise/vague definition, placed in between fiction and documentary, holds the capacity to offer a representative image, through universalizing experiences, of a kind of human being who inhabits Bom Jesus and the region of Campos de Cima da Serra.