Machado de Assis entre caiporas e medalhões: glorificação, cultura e política

Abstract

The dialogue between the Social Sciences and Literature is unceasing source of knowledge about the ways in which various human groups create, live and artistically represent their social, cultural and political. This study deals with the medalhonização notions and caiporismos two constellations / literary gifts image collections in Machado tales of Assisi that help to understand the glory and the lack of it were lived and interpreted in the political culture of Brazil. The aim of the thesis was to understand the oikonomia medalhonização as a glorification (AGAMBEN) and caiporismo as a way-of-life (AGAMBEN). The methodology developed in this research is a complex exercise of poetic interpretation of reverie (Bachelard) from machadianos tales that are considered here as singular universal. Starting from new organizations of collections of images stored in fifty-two tales of medallions and caiporas, selected among the hundred and nine written by the Rio storyteller, it was thought the praise and ignominy in nomotopo (SLOTERDIJK) of Brazilians. The medalhonização consists of four exercise groups (SLOTERDIJK) a oikonomia glorification in the opinion of others: the physical exercises and its size the aplomb of the regime and compass; the opinionated exercises and their size the art of thinking the thought; aclamativos the exercises and their size advertising; the liturgical exercises and its ceremonial dimension. The caiporismo is not cultivated by a oikonomia, however, they are formed by exercises designed for life-forms-sentenced to a lifetime depletion material, deprotection, and darks forgetfulness. The research taught three lessons: a) the existence of dialogic condition of peacock in the political culture of Brazilian, b) the understanding that the present images in the stories are universal and natural and c) the meeting with an interested story writer in glorificaciones, culture and politics.