A reading of "O Primo Basílio" according to schopenhauer's philosophy
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https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378633725Keywords:
Tragedy, Realism, NovelAbstract
From the standpoint of the schopenhauerian conception of the tragedy, it can be said that the portuguese writer Eça de Queirós' novel "O primo Basílio" presents the sublime character of the tragic. We can find in this novel not only the exposure of the extreme unhappiness , essential to the tragedy as a text, but also the exposure of the human misery, as well as the empire of evil, the resignation and the unavoidable path towards death. Besides, it is a harsh critique of the society, it's false moralism and it's mediocrity. Thus, in the eyes of the schopenhauerian philosophy, Eça not only has written a masterpiece, for he apprehends the essence of mankind and writes a novel wich might be considered a tragedy in a sense, but also he arraigns all sorts of hoaxes in the bourgeois society, in human affairs and even in human character.
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