{"title":"O LAPSO: ECHOES OF CHARLES LAMB IN THE SCIENCE OF PAYING","authors":"Viviane Carvalho DA Annunciação","doi":"10.1590/1983-682120221525","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article analyses the short story ‘O Lapso’ (1883). It demonstrates how Machado de Assis connects social medicine and the capitalist system via a quote by the early Romantic writer Charles Lamb. Resorting to a fragmentary and ironic narrative style, the narrator recollects the story of how the Dutch doctor Jeremias Halma cures the nobleman Nicolau of a fantastic disease which prevents him from understanding why he has to pay for services. Through intricate intertextual references, Machado demonstrates how Imperial capitalism reduces social relations to an intense game of competition and self-interest, which characterises the coloniality of power in nineteenth-century Brazil.","PeriodicalId":37762,"journal":{"name":"Machado de Assis em Linha","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Machado de Assis em Linha","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1590/1983-682120221525","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract This article analyses the short story ‘O Lapso’ (1883). It demonstrates how Machado de Assis connects social medicine and the capitalist system via a quote by the early Romantic writer Charles Lamb. Resorting to a fragmentary and ironic narrative style, the narrator recollects the story of how the Dutch doctor Jeremias Halma cures the nobleman Nicolau of a fantastic disease which prevents him from understanding why he has to pay for services. Through intricate intertextual references, Machado demonstrates how Imperial capitalism reduces social relations to an intense game of competition and self-interest, which characterises the coloniality of power in nineteenth-century Brazil.
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The journal, which is mainly aimed at the academic community, welcomes scholarly articles in the most diverse methodological and critical trends. The journal’s main areas of interest are literary studies, Brazilian literature and comparative literature, focused on the work of Machado de Assis. Articles will be received on a rolling basis. The articles must be original and unpublished in Brazil. The journal receives, reviews and publishes articles in Portuguese and English. All articles received by the editors will be submitted for evaluation by the editorial board and by ad hoc reviewers, members of the Brazilian and international academic community, who are specially invited for each issue of the journal.
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