RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Rumo ao concreto JF Luso-Brazilian Review JO Luso-Braz Rev FD University of Wisconsin Press SP 7 OP 15 DO 10.1353/lbr.0.0062 VO 46 IS 1 A1 Alfredo Bosi YR 2009 UL http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/46/1/7.abstract AB This essay intends to apprehend the figure of the character-narrator of Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas through the analysis of its three main determinations: the free style of the deceased author, the phenomenology of the underground man, and the apprehension of the social type. The relationship between these different approaches (constructive, existential and sociotypological) is not one of mutual exclusion, but rather a dialectic one. The result is intended to be the concrete concept, in the Hegelian sense of multiple determination.