Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: : 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.
DOI: 10.62791/k96yz783
Author: Alfredo Bosi
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4401213610