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The Historical Meaning of Cruelty in Machado de Assis

ROBERTO SCHWARZ DORIS SOMMER

The Places of History, 1999, p.34

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Título:
The Historical Meaning of Cruelty in Machado de Assis
Autor: ROBERTO SCHWARZ
DORIS SOMMER
É parte de: The Places of History, 1999, p.34
Descrição: The lowly wildflower, whose charm is due to neither artifice nor lineage, is an image dear to the Enlightenment, romanticism, and the democratic sentiment. The expression appears as the title of a crucial episode in Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas (164; 80), where it encompasses another, contrary meaning:¹ it disdainfully designates the young woman born out of wedlock, conceived behind the bushes, in the wild, so to speak. This conflict in meaning summarizes the ideological tenor of the episode, and the vulgarity of the opening pun gives us a taste of what is to come. The events narrated (chaps. 30
Editor: Duke University Press
Idioma: Inglês

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