AMOR[TE] IN THE WRITING OF MACHADO DE ASSIS
Machadian writing; Love; Death; Malaise
At the top of Morro do Livramento the writer Machado de Assis became an acute observer of Brazilian life, building throughout his trajectory in written art an essential literary enterprise for literary writing in America. Given the multiplicity of possible readings as the writer, the research addresses the Machadian writing having as its starting point and object the Posthumous Memories of Bras Cubas. The study seeks to underline a possibility of analysis in which the creative pulsation and Machadian criticism translate into a writing that operates with enigmas of love and death in an articulation that converges to malaise. In this way, it is discussed that through the writing of Machado de Assis we access, through literature, a way that allows us to discuss the Eros of Plato less on the side of the symmetry of a union and more of the outpouring of sexual drives that establish in the writing its effects. The known Bruxo do Cosme Velho does not architect this otherwise than presenting in a diffuse literary work a fragment of love that begins with death.