Deus e Diabo na ótica transgressora de Machado de Assis
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.34624/teografias.v0i3.36625Keywords:
Machado de Assis, Brazilian narrative, Religion, Transgression, IronyAbstract
We take two texts from Machado de Assis – the short story “A Igreja do Diabo” (Histórias sem Data, 1884) and a chapter of the novel Memórias Póstumas de BrásCubas (1881) in order to discuss the destabilizing vision of the Brazilian writer as refers to pre-established and institutionalized values in the religious sphere. Innovative construction procedures are used in his fictional narrative to give body to the critical position of the writer, who reverses hierarchies and plays skillfully with language, whether through irony, the subversion of proverbs, the redemption of dialogue with tradition. In Machado, the reader is asked to participate actively in the reception of his texts, because the meanings are unpredictable as well as the structure of the language, which accentuates the revolutionary role of the literature.
the revolutionary role of the literature.
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