Name: ROGÉRIO DE NAZARETH SOARES
Publication date: 16/08/2019
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| PAULO ROBERTO DE SOUZA DUTRA | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| FELIPE DE OLIVEIRA FIÚZA | External Alternate * |
| LUÍS EUSTÁQUIO SOARES | Internal Alternate * |
| PAULO ROBERTO DE SOUZA DUTRA | Advisor * |
| WILBERTH CLAYTHON FERREIRA SALGUEIRO | Internal Examiner * |
Summary: The present dissertation proposes to study the interfaces of politics in Quincas
Borba, Machado de Assis. For this reason, the research is based on: a) John
Gledson's analysis of Quincas Borba found in the book Machado de Assis:
fiction and history, in which the critic points out, from the modifications made by
the author in the final book edition (1891) an allegory of the end of the Second
Kingdom; b) Raymundo Faoro's studies in Machado de Assis: The pyramid and
the trapeze, WHERE situations and circumstances involving the political theme in
the work of the author of Dom Casmurro are punctuated and analyzed; c) Brito
Broca's contribution to Machado de Assis and politics, in which the critic
presents the political universe in Machado's work, in order to analyze how the
"extraordinary human spectacle" occurs in the arteries of literature and also in
the Brazilian imperial reality ; d) and, finally, the investigations of Lilia Moritz
Schwarcz on Dom Pedro II and the Second Reign in The beards of the
emperor: a monarch in the tropics. In this sense, three characters that situate
the political sphere of the novel will be analyzed: Rubião, Camacho and Teófilo.
In the case of Pedro Rubião, the study will be constituted in the relation
between megalomania and its consequent decay. For the madness of the
protagonist can function as a mediator in order to diagnose the tense political
moment of July 1868, when the emperor overthrows a liberal cabinet and
replaces it with a conservative. Such an act culminated in the collapse of the
monarchy. Thus, it is intended to present as a result in the dissertation, a study
of politics between the years 1867-1871 under the veins of literature, and how
madness mediates the megalomania and decadence of Rubião and the
Brazilian Empire.
