ANALYSIS OF THE NOVEL HELENA, BY MACHADO DE ASSIS, THROUGH THE THEORETICAL PRISM OF GEORG LUKÁCS

This text analyzes the novel Helena, by Machado de Assis, aiming to research whether or not it is possible to study this author through a Marxist tendency and to understand the aesthetic experimentation of this novel through intertextuality and dialogue with other works. This text also takes this novel as an example to perform the disclosure of the formal and aesthetics composition of this genre and its fragmentation, compared with the epic poem, with its readily available meaning , by Georg Lukacs in his Theory of the Novel.

TEMPO E CONFLITO EM VIAGEM AOS SEIOS DE DUÍLIA, DE ANÍBAL MACHADO

This work aims to analyze how the formal elements of the tale Viagem aos seios de Duília, by Aníbal Machado, converges to the disclosure of conflict introduced inside the protagonist, that is because of his awareness of misfit between he and the present time. The degradation of spatial elements does be revealed in narrative the consciousness about the irreversibility of time – fact that is experienced by the protagonist as a conflict of existential order, insofar it shows him what he refuses to see: the huge misfit between their beliefs and expectations and the external reality. The inexorability of time progression toward the total destruction of everything that is alive becomes for the character the tyranny of time; in continuous and constant war with this, trying to deny their relentless effects, the character find, however, only suffering, anguish and defeat this illusory endeavor. Nothing can endure: neither the man nor his dreams, nor their hopes, not even their illusions.