THE METAPHOR OF WRITING AS A RUPTURE WITH THE TENDENCIES OF THE POSTROMANTIC STYLISTIC COMPLEX IN THE CONCEPTION OF DOM CASMURRO, BY MACHADO DE ASSIS

Abstract

The article “The metaphor of writing, as a rupture with the tendencies of the post-romantic stylistic complex in the conception of Dom Casmurro, by Machado de Assis”, aims to demonstrate the metaphorism of writing as a leitmotif in the construction of Dom Casmurro. Machado de Assis, in the novel's carpentry, employs intriguing narrative strategies to, through humorous irony, question, at the level of enunciation, the naturalist conception of the world in late 19th-century literature. To this end, the Rio de Janeiro-born writer begins with reality, aiming to deny it and create another reality; not to mimic it, but to discuss what is understood as reality. Thus, what emerges in the novel is the construction of a text that presents itself to the reader as a conscious and self-aware exercise in language, since Machado de Assis's object is not the object external to the novel; it is the literary process.