Heroísmo e marginalidade: heranças quixotescas

Abstract

The Don Quixote, hauing established a new kind of literature, has generated a whole offspring of narratives which incorporate different aspects of its construction. Primarily, the following article concerns some of Don Quixoteys aesthetic qualities that are visible in Machado de Assis’ Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas. After that it will broach Lima Barreto’s Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma , showing another kind of filiation which leads to the question of the hero’s constitution, taking into account the imbrications between the epic and the liric, as well as the paradoxal Jusion of heroism and craziness