As relações familiares patriarcais, adultério e escravidão em "Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas", de Machado de Assis

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the novel Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas, by Machado de Assis, with emphasis on patriarchal family relationships, adultery and slavery. In addition to the work, secondary sources were used for the resolution of the research, highlighted: História Concisa da Literatura Brasileira (2006), by Alfredo Bosi; Um mestre na periferia do capitalismo (2000) and Ao Vencedor as batatas (2000), by Roberto Schwarz;A importância da literatura como fonte de pesquisa na construção do pensamento social brasileiro, by Alessandra Rufino Santos (2008). The social criticism made by Machado de Assis in the novel starts from aspects related to the patriarchal and slave molds of Brazilian society in the nineteenth century and articulates with aspects of realistic literature, which begins in Brazil precisely thanks to the publication of Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas. The research methodology is a bibliographic, qualitative and interpretative study. The results obtained in the research are related to the criticisms that Machado de Assis made through fictional characters to represent the way people were treated in their different situations during the Brazilian society of the nineteenth century.