Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva

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In Our Time · Machado de Assis · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

presenting elements of slavery and what it was like in an anecdote about a slave catcher and a runaway slaved woman.

So you see the very asymmetric relations.

The slave catcher has to catch the slave because it depends on that reward in order to keep his son.

So we, as readers, we have in one side the runaway slaver who is a pregnant woman, Arminda,

and the slave catcher, whose wife is also pregnant.

So as readers, the narrator doesn't pass any judgment, and we are put in this moral dilemma.

So this was a way for him to confront the system, talk about it, expose without being judgmental, leaving for the reader to make the conclusions.

Yes, so I think Don Casmuro, for example, is a novel that is almost impressionist.

We have one version of a story and not exactly the access to facts because it's a first-person narrator.

So we are very close to, we can compare to James Joyce and also Lord Jim by Conrad.

Conrad.

So we have the impressions of the narrator, and the narrator writes about his relationship with a dead character, exactly like in Lord Jim.

So we don't have access to that character, in the case of Lord Jim and Machado de Assis Capitu.

So what we have are the impressions, the memories of the main narrator,

about that character.

So we are getting very close to modernism, but Machado is still grounded in the 19th century.

So his plots are very grounded in a patriarchic, slave-owning society, and the characters reflect that society.

Well, I think the case is with Brazilian literature in general, or literature in Portuguese language.

We have our big neighbor or neighbors that write in Spanish, and the United States is a big market for Spanish literature, so it's fine.

But I think Machado and all the Brazilian writers like Clarice Lispector, Jorge Amado and Machado with the new wave of new translations are now actually bringing Machado to the shop windows of libraries and to the interest of newspapers.

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