A morte e a morte em Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas

Abstract

Machado de Assis is definitely one of the most well known Brazilian writers in the Literature scenario. He is considered by the critics one of the most important and complex names in our Literature. Machado is, above all, an icon to the modernity of our Portuguese language. Therefore, to discuss about his masterpiece is surely a big challenge, considering that there is a wealth criticism in which lays his texts. Having this in mind, we selected his first novel from the second productive period as the reference for analyzing one of the most intriguing themes from human kind history and one of the biggest mysterious: the death. The Machado’s novel according to the critics, opens his second production period. Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas shows the death as a place starting since the beginning, to produce a different discourse that had been elaborated by Machado so far. This way, we are able to recognize all the narrative components not only in this work, but also in each novel that Machado has written after 1881.