Ficção e história: o espelho transparente de Machado de Assis

Abstract

According to Luiz Roncari, Machado de Assis would have learnt after reading Edgar Allan Poe’s works a method of investigation and exposition which permitted him to create new kinds of narrative structure. Analysing the short novel ‘‘Singular ocorrência" the author explains to us how Poe’s theories acquire narrative form in Machado’s story through a game of hiding and disclosing