Published 2017-03-16
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Abstract
Abstract: It is argued in this essay that Xavier de Maistre, who adopted many of the mannerisms of Sterne but who was indeed the one who used dotted chapters, could have influenced Machado de Assis as much as or even more than Sterne, to judge by some indications. Therefore, from Maistre’s Voyage autour de ma chambre, much of the free technique could have passed to Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas, prompting a diffuse work; indeed, even some fictional situations may have been transmitted.