Narratives on the city: between the fear and the fascination

Abstract

The author proposes to bring up a pioneer instant of experimentation
of the passage from the house to the street, in the turn of the XIX century to the XX century, through the narrative of two benjaminian types: the “physiologist” and the “flâneur”. Later, it would be the time of the columnist and the journalist to register the city, its types, habits, customs, notices. Such passage from the house to the street took place with a compound of fear and allure, registered in the original perspective of such scribes who would elucidate, through its texts, some new perceptions in the imaginary of the time.