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The Athenaeum
Raul Pompeia
其他書名
A Novel
出版Northwestern University Press, 2015-06-10
主題Fiction / GeneralFiction / Classics
ISBN08101310649780810131064
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=HF40DAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Published in 1888, O Ateneu is a classic of Brazilian literature. It stands as one of the best examples of the Realist/Naturalist mode of fiction flourishing at the time (following the lead of French literature), but the novel’s first-person narration and satirical edge make it a more complex work. These features also distinguish it from the then-popular “school” novel. As the narrator recounts his humiliating experiences as a student, it becomes clear that his school is structured and administered so as to reproduce the class divisions and power structure of the larger society. At the same time, Pompéia maintains the novel’s credibility as a bildungsroman by portraying the narrator’s psychological development. The novel’s conclusion at once suggests both a doomed society and its possible redemption, indicative of a moment of upheaval and transition in Brazilian history.