Dialogues of The Doubt: Dostoevsky’s The Eternal Husband and Machado de Assis’s Dom Casmurro

Abstract

This article establishes a dialogic analysis of Dostoevski’s The Eternal Husband (1870) and Machado de Assis’s Dom Casmurro (1899), focusing on the treatment of the doubt as an aesthetic cathegory by both authors. This dialog opens room to questions related to the specificities of their prose in the context of Realism and to the signs of dialogism on the writing of the authors.