Machado de Assis and the unbundled world: a reading of Dom Casmurro

Abstract

This article aims to detect elements that help to understand Dom Casmurro from the approach of situations that will defer the Brazilian literary project in the second half of the 19th century. The environment limited to Rio de Janeiro, this work surpasses the description concerning a mimetic process of local feature to deepen the psychological aspect and the dramas of the human condition. In the face of this, we seek the same way to detect the relationship that extends from the local area and the family conflict to the universality of the relationships that relate to the Brazilian social crisis in the context of political transformations that have an affect on the passage between the nineteenth and XX centuries.