Permanent katabasis in the novelistic writing of Memorial de Aires

tanatographie of an outcast

Authors

  • Marcos Eustáquio de Paula Neto Universidade de Brasília
  • Augusto Rodrigues da Silva Junior Universidade de Brasília

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21680/1984-817X.2020v16n2ID20300

Keywords:

Machado de Assis, Memorial de Aires, Tanatographie, Katabasis, Bakhtin

Abstract

Our purpose is to analyze Machado de Assis’ Memorial de Aires (1908), taking into account the Cynical worldview expressed in the narrating diplomat’s diary. Katabasis – a descent into hell and a search for knowledge – allows the composition of the manuscript as an outcast and recorder of living reality. Result of daily and philosophical work, the counselor’s writing is made possible by katabasis and edited as a novel-diary. Employing the tanatographical criticism, we interpret the insulation as a creative strategy made by the work, which, although Stoical, shows itself as Cynical and ironic. Such Stoical meetings fomented through polyphony and poetics problems receive the contribution from the following scholars: Bakhtin, Bachelard, Branham, and Goulet-Cazé; Alfredo Bosi, Paulo Bezarra and Augusto da Silva Junior.

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Author Biographies

Marcos Eustáquio de Paula Neto, Universidade de Brasília

Mestrando em Literatura pela UnB e graduado em Letras pela mesma instituição. Faz parte do grupo de pesquisa Crítica Polifônica: Poéticas da Tanatografia (UnB/DPG-CNPq).

Augusto Rodrigues da Silva Junior, Universidade de Brasília

Professor associado I de Literatura Brasileira da Universidade de Brasília. Doutor em Literatura Comparada pela UFF (2008).

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Published

18-07-2020

How to Cite

DE PAULA NETO, M. E.; SILVA JUNIOR, A. R. da. Permanent katabasis in the novelistic writing of Memorial de Aires: tanatographie of an outcast. Espacialidades Journal, [S. l.], v. 16, n. 2, p. 38–54, 2020. DOI: 10.21680/1984-817X.2020v16n2ID20300. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufrn.br/espacialidades/article/view/20300. Acesso em: 22 jul. 2024.

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 2 (2020): Topos and Trope: The production of space in literary narrative

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