Machado de Assis's absent city

Authors

  • Pedro Meira Monteiro Universidade de Princeton; Departamento de Espanhol e Português

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-901X.v0i46p29-41

Keywords:

Machado de Assis (1839-1908), Ricardo Piglia (1941-), metanarrative, Brazilian literature, Argentinian literature, comparative literature

Abstract

In this article I attempt to discuss the metanarrative mechanism present in Machado de Assis' Memorial de Aires. Such a mechanism makes evident the writing process itself, as well as the narrator's doubts and hesitations, and in so doing it reveals the precariousness of making all stories. I find in Ricardo Piglia's La ciudad ausente the counterpoint for understanding how a machine that tells stories is subtly turned off before the reader's perplexed eyes.

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Published

2008-02-01

Issue

No. 46 (2008)

Section

Articles

License

 

  • Todo o conteúdo do periódico, exceto onde está identificado, está licenciado sob uma Licença Creative Commons do tipo atribuição CC-BY.

How to Cite

Monteiro, P. M. (2008). Machado de Assis’s absent city . Revista Do Instituto De Estudos Brasileiros, 46, 29-41. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-901X.v0i46p29-41