Uma revisão histórica sobre Sylvia Serafim, assassina de Roberto Rodrigues

Abstract

In the day following Christmas, on December 26, 1929, Journalist and Poet Sylvia Serafim entered the editorial office of the newspaper Crítica, with the intention of questioning its owner, Mário Rodrigues, about the publication of a cover story on the same day of her alleged adultery. Mário was not there, so Serafim ended up getting into an office with Roberto, Nelson Rodrigues' brother. It is not known what they talked inside, but Serafim shot Roberto, who ended up dying, in a murder that shocked and divided Rio's society. The story of Roberto Rodrigues' murder became a book, play, film, television program, it was explored by different media, in different formats. As these narratives migrate, they acquire new nuances, some contradictory to each other, through a process of division that begins during Serafim’s trial. As a result, Serafim ended up having her journalistic production erased, forgotten in History, despite its relevance at the time. The main objective of this paper is to analyze the process of dehumanization and erasure that Sylvia Serafim suffered, as well as to construct a sketch of biography about the author. Through biographical research and dialogue with a theoretical basis on processes of dehumanization, it will be possible to provide more comprehensive views, exploring unknown facets of an intellectual remembered only for her homicide.