Metamorphoses of the night
Machado de Assis, romantic legacy and social criticism
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-8133.opiniaes.2019.156319Keywords:
Machado de assis, Romanticism, Night, Brazilian literature, Brazilian novelAbstract
A recurrent image in Machado de Assis’ fiction is the description of the night and its semantically adjacent elements: the moon, the mist, the stars. By retrieving such symbolic construction, the author not only respond to the romantic legacy, but also develops a social critique that becomes more expressive and mature as the years go by. The present article focuses precisely on the study of imagery construction around nocturnal and astrological atmospheres described in his fictional texts, with an emphasis on the novels in which they stand out the most: Resurrection (1872), The hand and the glove (1874), Quincas Borba (1891) and Dom Casmurro (1899).
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