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Austen and Assis: similarities

Austen and Assis: similarities. Janaína Pietroluongo BRITISH COMMONWEALTH SOCIETY 26 September 2013 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ janapietro@gmail.com. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. JANE AUSTEN (England,1775-1817) MACHADO DE ASSIS (Brazil, 1839-1908). 1. GENIUS. Ability to criticise oneself.

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Austen and Assis: similarities

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  1. Austen and Assis: similarities Janaína Pietroluongo BRITISH COMMONWEALTH SOCIETY 26 September 2013 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ janapietro@gmail.com

  2. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES JANE AUSTEN (England,1775-1817) MACHADO DE ASSIS (Brazil, 1839-1908)

  3. 1. GENIUS • Ability to criticise oneself. • Highly developed sense of humour. • Imagination and creativity.

  4. 2. ABILITY TO OVERCOME AUSTEN: female condition, celibacy, class prejudice. ASSIS: poverty, illness, racial prejudice.

  5. 3. Both writers transcend literary schools. Austen and Assis reject labels.

  6. 4. Influences • William Shakespeare (1564-1616) • Henry Fielding (1707-1754) • Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) • Walter Scott (1771-1832)

  7. 5. Presence Jane Austen: 22.900.000 William Shakespeare: 51.200.000 Machado de Assis: 3.010.000 Gustave Flaubert: 2.920.000

  8. CRITICISM

  9. “There may not be a novelist in English who surpasses Jane Austen”. Harold Bloom

  10. “The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers. ”  Harold Bloom

  11. “I consider Machado the greatest genius of Brazilian literature in the XIX century.”. Harold Bloom

  12. 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)

  13. “She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper”(Pride and Prejudice)

  14. 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)

  15. UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTERS

  16. CAPITU

  17. http://youtu.be/cWk5Dpsl88A

  18. DARCY

  19. http://youtu.be/nty0udepDG4

  20. LIZZIE

  21. EMMA

  22. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=41MHIJIg6u0&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D41MHIJIg6u0http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=41MHIJIg6u0&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D41MHIJIg6u0

  23. MACHADO DE ASSIS • Ressurrection (1872) • The Hand and the Glove(1874) • Helena (1876) • Iaiá Garcia (1878)

  24. MACHADO DE ASSIS2nd PHASE • Epitaph of a small winner • Philosopher or Dog? • Dom Casmurro • Esau and Jacob • Counselor Aires´Memoirs

  25. THEMES

  26. FAMILY AND MARRIAGE

  27. LOVE

  28. CLASS SYSTEM

  29. SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS

  30. FRIENDSHIP

  31. READING

  32. WRITING

  33. Spin-offs Machado de Assis and Jane Austen´s works continue to inspire movies, TV series, plays, comics, cartoons, fanfics and mashups.

  34. 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...”.

  35. 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!

  36. 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...”.

  37. 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...”

  38. 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”

  39. REFERENCES • The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Penguin. • Tomalin, Claire. Jane Austen, A Life. • Grinberg, Keila. Para Conhecer Machado de Assis. • Stein, Ingrid. Figuras Femininas em Machado de Assis. • Literary Allusions in Jane Austen http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/litallus.html • Citações e Alusões na Ficção de Machado de Assis: http://www.machadodeassis.net/dtb_index.asp 7. Mensa Brasil: http://www.mensa.com.br

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