The prefaces of the novels and the initial composition method of Machado de Assis

Abstract

This article argues the importance of the introductory texts for the understanding of the ficcional work of Machado de Assis, detaching the preface of his first novel, Ressurreição, of 1872. In it, the writer points its method of ficcional construction based on the characterization and opposition of the characters from some verses of Shakespeare.