A representação da melancolia em Húmus, de Raul Brandão, Memórias do subsolo e Os irmãos Karamázov, de Fiódor Dostoiévski

Abstract

The world went through a violent process of revolutions from the mid-nineteenth century onwards, which intensified dramatically in the twentieth century. This panorama of disjunction led humanity into two world wars of planetary proportions: the world wars of 1914 and 1939. Literature did not exempt itself from this painful environment of melancholy and sorrow among individuals. Based on the described scenario, this work aims to analyze the novel Húmus (1917), by the Portuguese writer Raul Brandão, in comparison with the works Notes from Underground (1864) and The Brothers Karamazov, (1880) by the Russian genius Fyodor Dostoevsky - following the theoretical scope of Comparative Literature. Therefore, we will investigate how melancholy was established as a connection between the works of Brandão and Dostoevsky, with the latter having a clear influence on the former.