The impasses of the artistic creation in “Um homem célebre”
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https://doi.org/10.17058/signo.v33i0.613Abstract
The story “Um homem célebre” approaches a constant problem in the universe of Machado de Assis: the ideal of perfection. The article aims to analyze the impasses of the artistic creation: for the character Pestana, would it be a vocation, an ambition or an ideal? The inconformity with his social condition and his effort to ascend at any price is the subject of the story. Those impasses show as the art can be marked by contradictory ideas: the individual desires and the pressures of the society and of survival. The reader is invited to dive into this universe to discover the gap between what we are and what we would like to be.Downloads
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Published
2008-11-27
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Eisenkraemer, R. E. (2008). The impasses of the artistic creation in “Um homem célebre”. Signo, 33, 109-120. https://doi.org/10.17058/signo.v33i0.613
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Leitura, intertextualidade e recepção
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