As máscaras de um narrador pilantra: a sátira menipeia e a forma shandiana em Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas

Abstract

This study promotes an in-depth analysis of the work of Machado de Assis, with emphasis on the singularity of the narrator of Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas. The research seeks to reveal the complexity of Machado de Assis's narrative by exploring dialogical interaction, the narrator's masks and the fusion of the serious with the comic. The influence of Menippean satire and the Shandian form in the construction of this narrator is evident, revealing a complex literary strategy, where apparent madness reveals itself as a rhetorical tool that mixes laughter with melancholy.