Juízes da primeira república: o que revelam os contos de Lima Barreto

Abstract

This article analyzes the presence of ideal judge models developed by François Ost in Brazilian literature. During the Old Republic and the beginning of Brazil’s democracy, the academic productions in human sciences were rare, therefore, the interdisciplinarity between Law and Literature reveals itself a powerful appliance to investigate in which ideal model of judge the Brazilian magistrates would fit at that time. This way, in the light of Lima Barreto’s literary work, a carioca writer who lived the transition between Empire and Republic, we search to find which of François Ost’s ideal judges most applied to Brazilian Judiciary at the beginning of the XXth century.