De críticas e leituras entre José de Alencar e Balzac : Senhora e O Pai Goriot como linguagens da nação moderna

Abstract

This analysis proposes a comparative study on the literary works Senhora (1875), wrote by José de Alencar, and Old Goriot (1834), by Honoré de Balzac, without prefigure the problem of “literary models” as a synonymous of mismatch between Brazilian and French social realities in order of the historical process that converges on the Romanticism as an esthetic and literary movement. On this way, trying to understand the universal and particular as signals of the emerges on the national communities, we realized how both literary works are inserts as cultural pratices that shows how the historical subjects in focus understood and imputed senses at the civilization concept.