The fable of a liberal journalist: politcs and literature in a Machado de Assis’ fantastic short story

Authors

  • Rodrigo Camargo de Godoi UNICAMP - Universidade Estadual de Campinas/Campinas - SP

Keywords:

Machado de Assis, Conto fantástico, Política, Short story, Politics.

Abstract

This article analyses Machado de Assis’ fantastic short story “O País das Quimeras” going from the critics and chronicles where the author clearly shows us his both politic and artistic conceptions. Thus, without refusing the influences of the 19th fantastic literature in Machado’s short story, we could verify that the young writer started using the fiction as a space to discuss important matters of his own prose, like Brazilian empire politics. Keywords: Machado de Assis. Short story. Politics.

Published

18/12/2008

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