ABSTRACT
The lyrical guide to the periphery of Rio de Janeiro is a way of writing about the city, experiencing it through the lenses of a narrator who travels within an expanded cityscape. The Rio de Janeiro of Faustini is not a divided city, but the city that emerges as the result of the process of conurbation that enabled traveling across a network of several different routes. The "History of the Suburbs" that the narrator of Dom Casmurro wanted to write, which was likely to be a history of decadent upper classes, becomes a history of the conurbation of Rio de Janeiro in Lima Barreto's short pieces, a process that changed not only the landscape of these areas, but also the social class of its inhabitants. Although present in some novels written at the time, the expansion of Rio can be better understood through the detailed accounts to be found in stories published in periodicals.
