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Austen and Assis:
similaritiesJanaína Pietroluongo
BRITISH COMMONWEALTH SOCIETY26 September 2013 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
JANE AUSTEN(England,1775-1817)
MACHADO DE ASSIS(Brazil, 1839-1908)
1. GENIUS
• Ability to criticise oneself. • Highly developed sense of
humour. • Imagination and creativity.
2. ABILITY TO OVERCOME
AUSTEN: female condition, celibacy,
class prejudice.ASSIS: poverty, illness,
racial prejudice.
3. Both writers transcend literary
schools.
Austen and Assis reject labels.
4. Influences
• William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
• Henry Fielding (1707-1754)• Laurence Sterne (1713-
1768)• Walter Scott (1771-1832)
5. Presence
Jane Austen: 22.900.000
William Shakespeare: 51.200.000
Machado de Assis: 3.010.000
Gustave Flaubert: 2.920.000
CRITICISM
“There may not be a novelist in English who
surpasses Jane Austen”.Harold Bloom
“The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen
still inspires people to become fanatical readers. ”
Harold Bloom
“I consider Machado the greatest genius of Brazilian
literature in the XIX century.”.
Harold Bloom
Quotes by Austen
“It´s a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune,
must be in want of a wife”
(Pride and Prejudice)
“She was a woman of mean understanding, little information,
and uncertain temper”
(Pride and Prejudice)
QUOTES BY ASSIS
I know that you, Sir, would prefer a delicate lie; but I know nothing more delicate than the truth.
(Fluminense short stories)
UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTERS
CAPITU
•http://youtu.be/cWk5Dpsl88A
DARCY
• http://youtu.be/nty0udepDG4
LIZZIE
EMMA
• http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=41MHIJIg6u0&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D41MHIJIg6u0
MACHADO DE ASSIS
1.Ressurrection (1872)
2.The Hand and the Glove(1874)
3.Helena (1876)4.Iaiá Garcia (1878)
MACHADO DE ASSIS2nd PHASE
1.Epitaph of a small winner2.Philosopher or Dog?3.Dom Casmurro 4.Esau and Jacob5.Counselor Aires´Memoirs
THEMES
FAMILY AND MARRIAGE
LOVE
CLASS SYSTEM
SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
FRIENDSHIP
READING
WRITING
Spin-offs Machado de Assis and Jane
Austen´s works continue to inspire movies, TV series, plays, comics, cartoons, fanfics and mashups.
The hand and the glove
“ Mrs. Oswald had met the baroness in 1846...she was an intelligent and wise woman blessed with a good nature... Mrs. Oswald was the life and soul of the house...”.
The hand and the glove
- Why did you not call me? - I must have been asleep, or lost in
a Sir Walter Scott novel. - Milton – the English tutor sternly
corrected. This morning was dedicated to Milton. What a great poet, Dona Guiomar!
Iaiá Garcia“ The remainder was solely Iaiá´s deed. Her work split into two parts – a voluntary one and an uncounscious one. Voluntary because, the girl, in the laborious silence of her mind had created the idea of matching the two of them...”.
Emma
“Mr. Elton was the very person fixed on by Emma for driving the young farmer out of Harriet´s head. She thought it would be an excellent match...”
Ressurrection“ My idea when writing this book
was to put into action that famous thought by Shakespeare:
Our doubts are traitors,And make us lose the good
we oft might win,By fearing to attempt”
REFERENCES
1. The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Penguin.2. Tomalin, Claire. Jane Austen, A Life.3. Grinberg, Keila. Para Conhecer Machado de Assis.4. Stein, Ingrid. Figuras Femininas em Machado de Assis.5. Literary Allusions in Jane Austen
http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/litallus.html6. Citações e Alusões na Ficção de Machado de Assis:
http://www.machadodeassis.net/dtb_index.asp7. Mensa Brasil: http://www.mensa.com.br
