A emblemática figura feminina em O cortiço e Germinal

Abstract

This research presents representative performance aspects of the female figure in the novel by Aluisio Azevedo, O cortiço. Inserted both in the slum community as in the economic-social wealthy merchant, the woman is profiled by writer who carries caricatural lines in order to make evident the deviations of personality and feminine behavior. Data about the author served as subsidies to identify which elements of daily life in the second half of the nineteenth century, specifically in the context of Rio de Janeiro, as a strategy employed in the making of a fiction work that feeds on reality. In a moment of interpenetration oh the scientistic thoughts on the literary production, it is opportune to establish the dialogue between O cortiço and Germinal, Emile Zola, legitimized by the theoretical and critical Mikhail Bakhtin and Julia Kristeva, due to the compared study between two novels in the wake of Tania Franco Carvalhal.