Aos parasitas as batatas: estudo das personagens machadianas

• Ano de defesa: 2024
• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Iasmim Santos
• Orientador(a): Andrade, Alexandre de Melo
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Letras
• Palavras-chave em Português: Literatura brasileira; Estudo e ensino; Machado de Assis; Quincas Borba; Parasitismo; Personagens; Aquarela
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Parasitism; Characters; Watercolors
• Palavras-chave em Espanhol: Caracteres; Acuarelas
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS
• Link de acesso: https://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/20032

From the first letters in the press to the novels, Machado de Assis demonstrates an interest in parasitism. Certainly by reading Luciano de Samosata and his dialogue O Parasita. Not only is he interested in the theme, but also in the literary resources of the Lucianic tradition. From this sum of interests comes the “Watercolors” (1859), a set of chronicles that presents the main types of parasites in the country. From Ressurreição (1872) to Memorial de Aires (1908), Machado does not lose sight of the parasites, those who take advantage of potatoes or the benefits of others. Therefore, our thesis aims to panoramically present the echoes of the theme, the parasites of the body and those of the spirit and conscience in the novels; as well as analyzing this social type in Quincas Borba (1891). For this, we make use of studies about the character, the Lucianic tradition and Machado's criticism. Respectively, the main ones are: Bakhtin (2002; 2010; 2011), Bergson (2007), Braith (2017), Candido (1970; 2014), Rosenfeld (2014), Segolin (1978), Brandão (2001), Frye (2013 ), Merquior (1972), Sá Rego (1989), Bosi (2002; 2006), Brayner (1979), Barboza (2022), Dixon (2020), Faoro (2001), Gledson (1991; 2003; 2006), Santiago (2006; 2015), Schwarz (1991, 2012). In short, the “Watercolors” function as a compass for the construction of parasitic characters in the novels and these are an example of the expansion of this social type, in which the Witch of Cosme Velho has not lost interest over the years.