Casmurro’s echoes in Chico Buarque’s Budapest

Abstract

Machado de Assis’s work appear in many momentsof Chico Buarque’s fiction, also becoming a reference when the subject is the literature itself, as would  be  the  case  in Budapest. In this novel, one can  figure  an  unreliable  and paranoid  narrator, narcissist  and  competitive,  but  at the same  time insecure. The discussion of its  conquests and failures and his search for a respectable position among his public,  in  a story  of  revenge,  seems  to  echo Dom Casmurro’s autobiographical narrative.