O conto “Fulano” de Machado de Assis: o gênero conto entre teorias e tensões

Abstract

Machado, in his short stories, sought the most varied themes and gave them different interpretations, often his main object is man and everything that surrounds him, that is, his emotions, his impasses, his feelings and his discussions in relation to to the world. In this article we will pay attention to the main characteristics of the short story genre based on scholars of this genre such as Júlio Cortázar (1993) and Nádia Battela Gotlib (2006) and we will analyze the short story Fulano by Machado de Assis thinking about the theme of this narrative and also about the short story genre.