The historical romance Figure in the shadow: history and fiction in the literature of Assis Brasil
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Historical novel. Figura na sombra. Luiz Antônio de Assis Brasil.Abstract
Figura na sombra (2012) is a novel written by Luiz Antônio de Assis Brasil about the life of the world-renowned botanic Aimé Bonpland, specially his relation with Alexander von Humboldt, with whom he made expeditions in America and studies honored by the academy; also his later reclusion in South America, living with common workers in rural activities, obsessed by yerba mate cultivation. Since the 1970s Assis Brasil develops with accuracy his fictional production set in the historical past and founded by dense research, distinguishing itself from the historical novel model proposed by György Lukács, approaching the Seymour Menton and Linda Hutcheon readings on the new modes of historical novels. The focus of the present study is to consider the construction of the novel Figura na sombra focusing on how fiction relates to history, analysis preceded by a broad and superficial reading about history and fiction relation.Downloads
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