As a virus: the salazarism’s disease and its events in Valter Hugo Mãe’s novel: A máquina de fazer espanhóis and Antonio Tabucchi’s novel: Afirma Pereira

Authors

  • Maria Célia Martirani Bernardi Fantin Universidade Federal do Paraná

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/va.v0i29.107290

Keywords:

Valter Hugo Mãe, Antonio Tabucchi, illness, salazarism

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the Valter Hugo Mãe’s novel: a máquina de fazer espanhóis in dialogue with the Antonio Tabucchi’s novel: Afirma Pereira. Our comparative method is supported on the thesis that the salazarism – present in both books - can be read, metaphorically, as a disease that affected, in a tragical way, the portuguese social body, creating what came to be called: " fascism of good men". The protagonists of both novels, each in its own way, react differently to the alienating pressures of that " great evil " , whose roots can be clarified in the light of the reflections of Hannah Arendt in The Origins of Totalitarianism and Elias Canetti in Mass and power.

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Author Biography

  • Maria Célia Martirani Bernardi Fantin, Universidade Federal do Paraná
    Maria Célia Martirani Bernardi Fantin (Maria Célia Martirani) nasceu em São Paulo (S.P.), graduou-se em Direito pela USP e Letras pela PUC. É doutora em Teoria Literária e Literatura Comparada pela F.F.L.C.H. USP. Atualmente mora em Curitiba (PR), onde exerce o cargo de professora de Língua e Literatura Italiana da U.F.P.R., no Departamento de Letras Estrangeiras Modernas. É tradutora do autor italiano Claudio Magris e autora de Para que as árvores não tombem de pé- Affinché gli alberi non cadano in piede (contos)

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Published

2016-09-27

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 1 (2016): Tecidos do humano - literatura e medicina

Section

Dossiê 29: Tecidos do Humano - Literatura e Medicina

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How to Cite

FANTIN, Maria Célia Martirani Bernardi. As a virus: the salazarism’s disease and its events in Valter Hugo Mãe’s novel: A máquina de fazer espanhóis and Antonio Tabucchi’s novel: Afirma Pereira. Via Atlântica, São Paulo, v. 17, n. 1, p. 353–370, 2016. DOI: 10.11606/va.v0i29.107290. Disponível em: https://periodicos.usp.br/viaatlantica/article/view/107290.. Acesso em: 14 mar. 2025.