RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Um bilhete funcionamente multifocal e auto-plurifônico em “A cartomante”
JF Luso-Brazilian Review
JO Luso-Braz Rev
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 31
OP 50
DO 10.1353/lbr.2006.0022
VO 43
IS 1
A1 Diva Cardoso de Camargo
A1 Eli Nazareth Bechara
A1 Lídia Almeida Barros
YR 2006
UL http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/43/1/31.abstract
AB This article presents a functionalist analysis of the discourse of the note written by Vilela in the story “A cartomante,” by Machado de Assis. The note is interpreted and reinterpreted by Camilo several times in ways that are partially different. The effect of the re-readings, called “auto-pluriphonic,” arises from the various foci of new information that Camilo derives from the discourse at each new reading or remembrance of the contents of the note. One of these interpretations conveys the possibility of the ironic-tragic end of Machado’s text.