A brasilidade de Machado de Assis: um novo conceito de nacional

Abstract

In Brazil, the search for an essentially national literature was always been strong. The insertion of a Brazilian landscape in literature began in the eighteenth century, in the Arcadism. In Romanticism, with the spirit of freedom which was followed by Brazilians in relation to Portugal, it became more necessary to impose such feelings of nationality in the books and writings of the period. After Romanticism, a new vision of nationality comes with writer Machado de Assis, The objective is to show Machado as founder of true national literature, which began after the publication of Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas, in 1881. This book, besides being a precursor of a new conception of national, inaugurated the brazilian Realism and made Machado and his brazility had impacts intensely on literary criticism. This article is going to show the critical reception of the first works of De Assis, which was characterized by diverse opinions, with writers who did not see the national aspect of your literature, as the critic Araripe Jr., and others such as Roger Bastide and Robert Schwarz, who support the stance of the writer from the universal to be essentially national.