It was once upon the time of Napoleon
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Brazilian Literature, Machado de Assis, Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas, The 19th Century Brazilian Novel.Abstract
Reading of chapter 12, «An 1814 episode», from Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas. It is shown how the combination of two veiled sources — Stendhal, from Le rouge et le noir, and Manuel Antônio de Almeida, from Memórias de um sargento de Milícias — point out the ideological instability of the text. It wavers between the noble tone, which describes the reaction to Napoleon´s fall in the ex-colony´s capital, and the rascally tone, which has fun with Dona Eusébia´s fall in the backyard.
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