Amorte, em torno da escrita machadiana

Abstract

This dissertation deals with and investigates Machado's writing. It recognizes the place of Machado de Assis as a questioner of social relations. With that said, through the analyzes of the book “Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas”, this research seeks to give impetus to the “thematization” of love and death, while articulating psychoanalysis and literary theory as ways of reading Machado’s writing, since it establishes a fruitful relationship between these beacons beyond merely thematic spheres. It is pointed out that through a deceased author the stagings of a man afflicted by language are represented when building a writing of death that revolves around women. Writing and death, the disjunction between jouissance and love, the comedy and tragedy of loving partnerships offer the panorama for understanding that Machado's writing does not dissociate love and death, but builds a poetics in which they are written together: amorte.