Um estudo comparativo sobre a representação da morte nas obras Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas e A morte de Ivan Ilitch

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the works Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas, by Machado de Assis, and A morte de Ivan Ilicth, by Lev Tolstói, considering the meanings of death raised by the historian Phillippe Ariès that permeate the constructions of the narratives. The analysis of the works follows the veins of comparative literature, since it intended a comparative analysis in order to identify the convergences and divergences about the death element in the referred works, one belonging to Brazilian realist literature and the other to Russian realist literature. For the theoretical basis, conceptions of: Ariès (2012), Brunel, Pichois & Rousseau (2012), Candido (2000), Carvalhal (2006), Eco (2003), Nitrini (2010), Tomachevski (2013), among others. From the research it was possible to identify proximities between the works of the analyzed element, in addition, it was possible to identify the reflective character, which makes up the two works, about the existential void perceived through the dead state.