The writer, politician, journalist and diplomat João Marques de Carvalho was born in Belém, capital of Pará state, on November 6, 1866, and died in Nice, southern France, on April 11, 1910, with 43 years. Besides his prose fiction was published in book form, some of his texts between short stories, novels, legends and critical essays, are spread on pages of certain periodic sheets that circulated by Belém the last two decades of the nineteenth century (1880-1900), as Diário de Belém (Belém’s Daily), A Província do Pará (The Province of Pará), A República (The Republic) and A Arena (The Arena). Therefore, considering the universe of his writings published in local newspapers, the objective is, with this work, to evaluate not only as Marques de Carvalho understood the naturalist doctrine, the function of criticism and literary production in the state of Pará, as well as analyze the representation of the Lusitanian and Amazonian fictional space in his stories and novels published in Belém’s periodical press of the nineteenth-century.
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