Mocidade Morta: life in Art of XIX Century

Abstract

This essay aims to read the novel Mocidade Morta, by Gonzaga Duque, and do some comparisons between life and art of XIX century. Gonzaga Duque uses some events and characters of his time in his book; this gives the novel a realistic character in art. Throughout the chapters the art will appropriating the “real”. If as Rancière (2005) says: the real must be fictionalized to be thought, then the art is a privileged place to think about the life.