Literary journalism, transdisciplinarity and complexity field: The journalistic and literary knowledges of João Guimarães Rosa

Abstract

This article seeks to situate Literary Journalism as a discipline of complex and transdisciplinary knowledge, necessary for the training of every journalist. It seeks to understand and integrate the practice of narration to the problems of the levels of reality. The concepts of Literature of Complexity and Transdisciplinarity serve as a basis for our reflection. With the short story “Com o vaqueiro Mariano”, we bring the literature of João Guimarães Rosa and his relations with journalistic knowledge, from the notion of interview, through the system of production and circulation of information to the techniques of verification that the author used. Finally, we conclude that Literary Journalism allows not only to situate journalism in the communication circuit, but also, and in an extended way, broaden the communication circuit to its cultural dimension, exercising such a pedagogical role relevant to any area of knowledge.