Machado de Assis and the daily life of violence: Revisiting two scenes from Brás Cubas and Aires

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/1679849X74215

Keywords:

Brás Cubas , Aires, Machado de Assis , Daily life of violence

Abstract

Brás Cubas and Aires bear witness to violent acts committed by authority, whether legally constituted – the police, for example, who arrest the thief acting in Largo da Carioca – or legitimately. The latter is the case of the owners, as both Prudêncio, owner of a slave that he considers a vagrant and an alcoholic, and the cart driver, owner of a stalled donkey, consider their actions valid and are not contested by the crowd that watches them. The proximity of the episodes denounces, from the outset, the reification of the servant by his master, according to the logic of slavery and all forms of oppression.

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Author Biography

Regina Zilberman, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)

Doutorado em Romanistica - Universidade de Heidelberg (Ruprecht-Karls) e pós-doutorado no University College (Inglaterra) e Brown University (EUA)

References

ASSIS, Machado de. Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas. São Paulo: Mérito, 1959.

ASSIS, Machado de. Esaú e Jacó. São Paulo: Mérito, 1959.

LEVI, Primo. É isto um homem? São Paulo: Rocco, 1997.

Published

2004-01-01

How to Cite

Zilberman, R. (2004). Machado de Assis and the daily life of violence: Revisiting two scenes from Brás Cubas and Aires. Literatura E Autoritarismo, (2). https://doi.org/10.5902/1679849X74215