MACHADO DE ASSIS E A EDUCAÇÃO.

Abstract

In order to investigate on education in Machados texts had as objectives to research about the life and work of Machado de Assis; to analyze how it presents the intellectual education the instruction-education, simultaneously, to realize how the formation happens in society in the second half of the nineteenth century and in early twentieth century; to inquire still the adjustment between education and literature, as well as the revelation of both analyzed texts. To fulfill the proposed, originally it was made a study in order to know and understand the critical view of some scholars, and apprehend the perspectives of Machado about the nineteenth century literature. It was necessary a survey and biographical selection through the studies and biographic analysis and documental both with regard to theses and dissertations realized about the author, as the existence of critical studies. To research Machados literature implicates to recognize in it and do not end so easily; it is to recognize that is the narrative of an author who cannot be read with an admiration exempt of critical spirit of the same way that it should not be read as a set of works whose interpretations have already been exhausted. Machados texts reflex customs and language, and can be cut out of his texts opinions about Education, the instruction, a good behavior, among many other topics. Machado was a man of his time worried with the formation of a Brazilian nationality.