Considerarions about memory and oblivion in Law from the short story ?Pai Contra Mãe', by Machado de Assis
| Autor | Leonela Otilia Sauter Soares |
| Ocupação do Autor | Graduation Student at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS, Brazil |
| Páginas | 835-849 |
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Considerarions about memory and
oblivion in Law from the short story ‘Pai
Contra Mãe’, by Machado de Assis
Leonela Otilia Sauter Soares1
Abstract: This working paper aims to explore the relationship between Law,
ocial History and Literature, and the limits of appliance in this connection.
Initially, this research exposes how Law is important as memory of a nation.
Simultaneously, it is made clear how occasionally Law can be partial as a legal
order (Law can privilege certain people, as those who are/were in power, when
it allows them to misrepresent information and to spread some data that do not
always match the reality). From this, the presentation analyzes the short story
‘Pai contra Mãe’, by Machado de Assis and the context in which it has been
wrien. This research discusses these points investigating the analysis of dis-
course, according to ‘A Arqueologia do Saber’, by Michel Foucault.
Keywords: ‘Pai contra Mãe’; Law as memory of a nation; ‘A Arqueologia do
Saber’.
Introduction
When one rst starts aending school, one learns to obey a set
of predetermined rules. We are taught that we must obey the teacher,
respect our classmates, and do our homework. One is also taught to
write texts about one’s routine, as well as about topics concerning one’s
reality. As one grows, the rules become more complex. If one was to
consider that throughout a person’s school life one writes one’s history,
those rules of behavior are a sample of law, and that textual productions
can be a sample of the literature, then it is possible to say that “History”,
1
Graduation Student at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS, Brazil. Gradu-
ation level. e present paper was made with the support of Pró-Reitoria de Pesquisa
- UFRGS –Brazil.
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