In A confissão de Lúcio (Lúcio’s Confession, 1914), Mário de Sá-Carneiro places all of his characters on a precise scale: at the bottom is the despicable bourgeoisie; at the top is the artist, whose characteristics cannot be articulated. Ricardo, Lúcio and Gervásio oscillate between these points; they are the “something in the middle”. Although no one character can avoid being evaluated according to this hierar...
Comparing the thoughts of the last Carlos Fradique Mendes, the ironic epistolographist, with the philosophy of Zaratustra, the prophet of the Dionysian, the coincidences and differences between the aesthetic, political and ethical proposals of Eça de Queirós and Friedrich Nietzsche are compared. After defending that the works of the two authors face certain common philosophical questions, the article goes on to...
This essay aims to analyze three literary and cinematic meditations about the Ikea stores: a chronic, a theatre play, a movie of experimental cinema. It is questioned whether the ways in which the artistic work defies, by humor, the logic of consumption and analyzes the speech of the advertising and private property, to consider possible alternatives.
This article reflects on Genette's most recent work and his theorisation on his own work (its unity and heterogeneity) and the recent multiplication of the areas of study (from music to painting, from Stendhal to Proust). Note is also made of Genette's idiosyncrasy in Figures IV.
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