MACHADO DE ASSIS AND THE INTERTEXTUALITY OF BRITISH HUMOUR

Resumo

It has become traditional to say that the British humourists, especially Shakespeare, Swift, Sterne, Lamb, Thackeray and Dickens influenced Machado de Assis. But it was the critic Eugênio Gomes who showed with precision the sublety and excellent taste of Machado obtained through this influence. With our contemporary approaches , it becomes interesting to question the idea of influence and examine in the light of intertextuality this contact of humour between the works of Machado and those of these five great figures of English Literature.

Keywords: Humour. Machado de Assis. Intertextuality. English Literature.