Thwarted, pure and self-sacrificing love? / Amores contrariados, puros e abnegados?

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2009

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Based on the big critical legacy of Camilo Castelo Brancos work, built since Teófilo Braga until the present, this study aims looking at Camilians fiction beyond its obvious contents: thwarted, pure, and self-sacrificing love stories. In order to do so, we have analyzed the novels Os brilhantes do brasileiro (1869) and Agulha em Palheiro (1863), with the objective of showing how the author is able to combine, in these novels, the literary style in vogue at the time and the portrait of the prosaic society that the author observed in his reality immediately, a world which is far away from the romantic and idealized configuration proposed by significant part of this criticism. In addition to addressing the specific characteristics of each novel, such as narrative structure, the construction of characters, the themes addressed, among others, we intend, at the end of this study, to examine the similarities and differences between the two narratives, emphasizing the dynamism, the multiplicity and, most importantly, the complexity of the writer of São Miguel de Ceide.

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retrato social narrator social portrait crítica literária narrative construction camilo castelo branco camilo castelo branco construção narrativa literary criticism narrador

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