1. Austen and Assis: similarities Janaína Pietroluongo BRITISH COMMONWEALTH SOCIETY 26 September 2013 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ janapietro@gmail.com

2. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES JANE AUSTEN (England,1775-1817) MACHADO DE ASSIS (Brazil, 1839-1908)

4. 1. GENIUS Ability to criticise oneself. Highly developed sense of humour. Imagination and creativity.

5. 2. ABILITY TO OVERCOME AUSTEN: female condition, celibacy, class prejudice. ASSIS: poverty, illness, racial prejudice.

6. 3. Both writers transcend literary schools. Austen and Assis reject labels.

7. 4. Influences William Shakespeare (1564- 1616) Henry Fielding (1707-1754) Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) Walter Scott (1771-1832)

8. 5. Presence Jane Austen: 22.900.000 William Shakespeare: 51.200.000 Machado de Assis: 3.010.000 Gustave Flaubert: 2.920.000

9. CRITICISM

10. There may not be a novelist in English who surpasses Jane Austen. Harold Bloom

11. The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers. Harold Bloom

12. I consider Machado the greatest genius of Brazilian literature in the XIX century.. Harold Bloom

13. Quotes by Austen It´s a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife (Pride and Prejudice)

14. She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper (Pride and Prejudice)

15. QUOTES BY ASSIS I know that you, Sir, would prefer a delicate lie; but I know nothing more delicate than the truth. (Fluminense short stories)

16. UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTERS

17. CAPITU

18. http://youtu.be/cWk5Dpsl88A

19. DARCY

20. http://youtu.be/nty0udepDG4

21. LIZZIE

22. EMMA

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24. MACHADO DE ASSIS 1.Ressurrection (1872) 2.The Hand and the Glove(1874) 3.Helena (1876) 4.Iaiá Garcia (1878)

25. MACHADO DE ASSIS 2nd PHASE 1.Epitaph of a small winner 2.Philosopher or Dog? 3.Dom Casmurro 4.Esau and Jacob 5.Counselor Aires´Memoirs

26. THEMES

27. FAMILY AND MARRIAGE

28. LOVE

29. CLASS SYSTEM

30. SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS

31. FRIENDSHIP

32. READING

33. WRITING

34. Spin-offs Machado de Assis and Jane Austen´s works continue to inspire movies, TV series, plays, comics, cartoons, fanfics and mashups.

35. The hand and the glove Mrs. Oswald had met the baroness in 1846...she was an intelligent and wise woman blessed with a good nature... Mrs. Oswald was the life and soul of the house....

36. The hand and the glove - Why did you not call me? - I must have been asleep, or lost in a Sir Walter Scott novel. - Milton – the English tutor sternly corrected. This morning was dedicated to Milton. What a great poet, Dona Guiomar!

37. Iaiá Garcia The remainder was solely Iaiá´s deed. Her work split into two parts – a voluntary one and an uncounscious one. Voluntary because, the girl, in the laborious silence of her mind had created the idea of matching the two of them....

38. Emma Mr. Elton was the very person fixed on by Emma for driving the young farmer out of Harriet´s head. She thought it would be an excellent match...

39. Ressurrection My idea when writing this book was to put into action that famous thought by Shakespeare: Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt

40. REFERENCES 1.The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Penguin. 2.Tomalin, Claire. Jane Austen, A Life. 3.Grinberg, Keila. Para Conhecer Machado de Assis. 4.Stein, Ingrid. Figuras Femininas em Machado de Assis. 5.Literary Allusions in Jane Austen http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/litallus.html 6.Citações e Alusões na Ficção de Machado de Assis: http://www.machadodeassis.net/dtb_index.asp 7. Mensa Brasil: http://www.mensa.com.br