Machado de Assis: o aprendizado do escritor e o esclarecimento de Mariana

Abstract

This article is divided into two parts. The first examines how Machado managed to construct a viewpoint different to that of his own in order not to have any commitment to what was being narrated. The second part makes a reading of the short story "Capítulo dos chapéus”, showing that the French Revolution, almost a hundred years after it took place, with all its social and spiritual implications, was still something strange for life in Brazil