Modernidades “periféricas”, literaturas policêntricas: Dostoiévski, Machado de Assis e o “figurino” europeu

Abstract

F. Dostoyevsky and Machado de Assis recreated through literature the historical context of their countries during modernizing periods, which combined western influences and national traditions. In the 1880´s Russian literature went through a vast international diffusion, increasing Dostoyevsky´s artistic influence worldwide and in Brazil. In this context, the literature produced in a “Peripheral” country went from the symbolical and geographical “margins” of modern world to it´s very “center”. This article intends to discuss modernity as a multiple, ambiguous process, not having static centers, but rather involving a great human variety within a multiple dialogue between different nations.