A escritura que se faz com o outro: diálogo e transferências culturais de Machado de Assis com a obra de Madame de Staël

Abstract

This research, inserted in the methodological perspective of cultural transfers, from Michel Espagne (2017), aims to verify the Machadian reception of the ideas of Madame de Staël (1766-1817) in transit in the 19th century. Based on the notions of crossing, assimilation and re-assertion and focusing on the recent results of the project on the transatlantic circulation of printed matter (ABREU, 2016-2020), (GRANJA; LUCA, 2018) and (PONCIONI; LEVIN, 2018), and the research of the Dossier "Transits, exchanges and cultural transfers" (XAVIER; AUGUSTI & MOLLIER, 2019), we analyzed the mentions (SENNA, 2008) to Madame de Staël in the writings of Machado de Assis in an attempt to outline the crossing of ideas between the two authors. To this end, we have used sources such as periodicals, catalogues of booksellers, catalogues of the Machado de Assis library (MASSA, 1961), book sales announcements and auctions of works and general writings of Rio de Janeiro intellectuals of the eighteen hundred, from which we have confirmed the presence of works and ideas of Mme. de Staël in circulation in Brazil. The research showed the literary affinity between the FrancoSwiss writer and the Brazilian author, given the proven presence of allusions to Staël's baroness in various segments of machadian writing: in fiction, critical texts and letters.