Dom Casmurro e São Bernardo : encontros e desencontros

Abstract

Not very rare to find ourselves with the impression of having already read a text, already have seen an image in the eyes of many seems unprecedented. Using the words of Roland Barthes, when in happens, reading a book, suspending the reading with frequency is because we noticed an influx of ideas, excitations and associations. Within the literary production of Machado de Assis and Graciliano Ramos, two works are distinguished by similarity between them: Dom Casmurro (1899) and São Bernardo (1934). Though in different contexts and environments, these works are corpus of a comparative study which aims to analyze the "Meetings and oubt' of these narratives. The characteristics of the narrator autodiegético, the construction of memory used for the confection of the book inside the book, the figure of the woman in the stories of the narrators-characters, jealousy thananything and the tragic outcome of their narratives are the similarities and differences that if you want to highlight this thesis.