Expressões metarromanescas em Machado de Assis: o caso do Memorial de Aires

The article propones echoes of a theory of the novel by Machado de Assis based on his own novelistic work, emphasizing his last novel, the Memorial de Aires. As such, after performing a critical revision specially from his Second Fase works and establishing from this moment a relation between those and certain propositions by Schlegel, the article aims to analyze, focusing on the formal specificity of a fictional diary (as is the case with the Memorial), suggestions about the concept of fiction itself underlying Machado’s corpus. The article engages critically with Blanchot’s theory on the intimate diary and brings upon a reading on the constant quotations from Shelley throughout the novel with the intention of articulating such recurrence to a particularly Machadian way of dealing with questions such as truth, lie, fiction and dissimulation.