Memórias póstumas e romance: um estudo sobre gênero, ficcionalidade e vazio / Memorias Postumas and novel: a study about genre, fictionality and nothingness

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2006

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In the first part of this thesis, Machado de Assis Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas, published in 1881, serve as a starting point to develop the idea that in novels wich do not disguise their fictional nature, when the reader begins to read it the character is already dead, as it has no life beyond fiction. That is, novels that bluntly manifest their fictional aspect will always be posthumous memories of this or those characters. Therefore, Machados novel becomes an allegory of the Romanesque gender. In the reading experience, the characters announced death aids the reader to be prepared for its own, as he or she live such death as their own. Afterwards, the thesis raise the argument that the Romanesque gender by its turn is an allegory of the tragic human existence. The recurring metaphor of picturing life as a book, used in Machados novel, enables one to hurdle the categorization of the act of reading, elaborated by the German theorist Wolfgang Iser, towards the relation we maintain with the facts of our own existence. Therefore, through that analogy, the emptiness of the novel to be read highlights the existential emptiness we are all subject to. In the second part, the research is focused in two moments of the approach of emptiness by the 20th Century literature, to realize how the emptiness and the indeterminations of the text relate to the characters existential emptiness. In Graciliano Ramos São Bernardo, the loss of the wife triggers the crisis that make the storyteller question his own life; In Carlos Sussekinds Que pensam vocês que ele fez, the protagonists obsession for the diary written by his late father leads the reader to question the sense of life itself.

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literatura comparada carlos sussekind graciliano ramos machado de assis graciliano ramos teoria do romance assis, machado de, 1839-1908. memórias póstumas de brás cubas - crítica e interpretação brazilian literature literatura brasileira novel theory machado de assis carlos sussekind

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