Raymundo Faoro, Reader of Machado de Assis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4014629 |
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| Authors | Alessandro Bosi (0000-0001-6004-3908, corresponding author), Alfredo Bosi |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 177-198 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-20 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1521-804X • E-ISSN: 2573-1432 |
| Publisher | University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.62791/k96yz783 |
| OpenAlex | W4401213610 |
| Language | EN |
This paper provides a close reading of Raymundo Faoro's Machado de Assis: A pirâmide e o trapézio (1974), which shows to what extent Faoro's intensive reading of Machado de Assis coincided with the retrieval and deepening of his theses on the political formation of Brazil. In the case of Brazilian society during the Second Empire or at the beginning of the Republic-which is the stage for Machado's characters-Faoro's thesis combines a synchronic framework and historical process, or diachrony. Synchrony produces a static map; diachrony, movement and passage
Art · Humanities · Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies · Linguistics and Education Research · Literature, Culture, and Criticism
| Highly cited | No |
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