PLCS 13/14 (2005)
Poetry / Crônica / Journalism

Machado de Assis, the Apprentice Journalist

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  • Cristiane Costa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.62791/5bay3463

Published 2017-03-16

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Abstract

Abstract: This paper analyzes Machado de Assis’ literary career from the standpoint of journalism. Machado followed the same strategy to find his path as other writer-journalists of color, such as Teixeira e Souza and Paula Brito, had already done. After all, how could a poor, young mulatto, an orphan and epileptic, come to be the most famous writer in slave-owning Brazil? Only by entering the great halls of literature through the service entrance of journalism.

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