Revista Araticum

10-16

Authors: Ivana Ferrante Rebello

This work presents a reading of the novel Alice, written by D. Luiza F. de Camargo Pacheco, published in 1903. With Romanticism's resources which sees the woman according to the patriarchal model also features a full speech of contradictions through which were ad the mechanism sused to express a placeand a voice.

35-46

Authors: Mannuella Luz de Oliveira Valinhas

In “Teoria do Medalhão” (1881), by Machado de Assis, we can notice echoes of arguments used by the philosopher Matias Aires in “Carta sobre a Fortuna” (1786). In this article, we intend to analyze how, in both texts, vanity is thought as the passion which rules the world. In both cases, vanity leads to achievement of social place, by suiting to convention, becoming thus the essential tool which ensures that world’s theatre works, with everyone playing their roles. In his satire, Machado brings references from Matias Aires regarding to pessimist “world view” (the “disillusioned” sight to society) and to importance of “seeking for glory” as way of assertion of the primordial place taken by vanity among the human beings.

62-68

Authors: Maria Generosa Ferreira Souto

This text proposes to discuss the concept of Metanoia in the literary space of Esau and Jacob, Machado de Assis, while traffic in place of the rivalry between twin brothers, that translate between many other rivals of the imaginary. Given the fragmentation of life of twins Peter and Paul, the spaces are fundamental to the construction and consolidation of both identities, which feed the anger and jealousy, to build the phenomenon of metanoia.

85-97

Authors: Osmar Pereira Oliva

Since Ressureição (1872), his novel of initiation, Machado de Assis explained in the prologue, that his interest was to contrast two characters: Livia and Felix, presenting to the reader the dubiousness and the instability of the young doctor's personality, lazy to work and inconstant in love. Two years later, this proposal is retaken up with A mão e a luva (1874), in which the narrator contrasts the characters of Estêvão and Luis Alves, two lawyers vying for love of Guiomar. Through recurring ironies and aphorisms, the reader follows not only the warmth and sentimentality of Estêvão and firmness in action and rationality of Luis Alves, but the searching look and seduction strategies of the primary teacher in order to, metaphorically, climb a step in the social ladder and take the place of heiress of her rich godmother and being the wife of the most influent and determined lawyer who courts her. This work aims therefore to carry out a survey of aphorisms present in A mão e a luva and analyze them associated with some ironies used by Machado's narrator to contrast the characters of Estêvão, Luis Alves and Guiomar.

114-122

Authors: Rita de Cássia Silva Dionísio Santos

This study aims to analyze some unusual and fantastic aspects of the story "Second Life" by Machado de Assis. From the morbid meddling of an insane character, who is in the living room of a religious man in psychic normal conditions. The narrative allows us to reflect on the interchangeable condition of madness and human wisdom – leading us think how both of them, which are close to us, can live contiguous and simultaneously in the same spaces.