No declinio, do visconde de Taunay : o canto do cisne

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2002

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Although the Viscount of Taunay has been widely acclaimed because of his works Inocência and A Retirada da Laguna, he was an obstinate polygraph, dedicating himself to several literary genres. Among these litlle known writings lies in detachment the last author s No Declinio (1899), produced in an end-of-century time, which coincided with lhe Viscount s life end. In narrating the story of a middle-aged lady who falls in love with a much younger man, Taunay builds a relatively modem character to the terms of a work considered to be of a romantic style. The dream and the ecstasy - dimensions where her forbidden desires are taken to - are narrated with great pictorial richness, only found in the works in which Taunay used his descriptive verve to "painf the brazilian Nature. However, all the coloring of these scenes contrasts with the protagonist s twilight end, once resigned to the imminent and inevitable old age. Taunay s final traits in such last work outline an author who, even though preserving the art of detail and discretion, opted for a novel in which the facts have their own relevance, as they reflect human relationships between the characters and their social meanings

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literatura brasileira

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