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Da melancolia em Camilo
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Procedendo da leitura de Coração, cabeça e estômago, propomos abordar o modo como Camilo Castelo Branco integra perspetivas médicas, filosóficas e literárias sobre a melancolia. Veremos como tal condição, que remete ao âmago da autoafeção humana, surge em diversos de seus textos não apenas como observação fisiológica da melancolia, assim reduzida à sua dimensão pática, mas como suporte de um posicionamento satírico e crítico que antecipa temas literários da segunda metade do século XIX. A observação melancólica de Camilo está dependente de um realismo frugal na expressão que só é possível num posicionamento de limiar capaz de ler os limites da comédia humana – a vulnerabilidade, o sofrimento e a morte – à luz das assimetrias e clivagens que marcam o seu tempo. O desgosto amoroso, indissociável do tentacular calculismo das alianças tem como contraponto uma esquemática resignação e comodismo, cuja consistência revela o seu embasamento na vivência traumática de Camilo. Atendendo ao temperamento do romancista, indiciado em vários textos de cariz biográfico e em relatos de contemporâneos, salientamos ainda o modo como a sua adoção de um olhar melancólico se concretiza numa poética do afeto.
By reading Coração, cabeça e estômago [Heart, head and stomach], we propose to look at how Camilo Castelo Branco adopts medical, philosophical and literary approaches to melancholy. We will see how this condition, which goes back to the core of human self-affection, appears in various texts by Camilo, not just as a physiological observation of melancholy, thereby reduced to its pathic dimension, but as the support of a satirical and critical position, anticipating literary themes from the second half of the 19th century. Camilo’s melancholic observation is dependent on a frugal realism in expression that is only possible in a threshold position capable of reading the limits of the human comedy – vulnerability, suffering and death – in the light of the asymmetries and divides that mark his time. The heartbreak that is so often inseparable from the tentacular calculus of the alliances is counterpointed by a schematic resignation and self-indulgence, the consistency of which reveals its basis in Camilo’s traumatic experience. Bearing in mind the novelist’s temperament, as indicated in various biographical texts and in the accounts of contemporaries, the way in which his adoption of a melancholic outlook becomes concrete in a poetics of affect is highlighted.
By reading Coração, cabeça e estômago [Heart, head and stomach], we propose to look at how Camilo Castelo Branco adopts medical, philosophical and literary approaches to melancholy. We will see how this condition, which goes back to the core of human self-affection, appears in various texts by Camilo, not just as a physiological observation of melancholy, thereby reduced to its pathic dimension, but as the support of a satirical and critical position, anticipating literary themes from the second half of the 19th century. Camilo’s melancholic observation is dependent on a frugal realism in expression that is only possible in a threshold position capable of reading the limits of the human comedy – vulnerability, suffering and death – in the light of the asymmetries and divides that mark his time. The heartbreak that is so often inseparable from the tentacular calculus of the alliances is counterpointed by a schematic resignation and self-indulgence, the consistency of which reveals its basis in Camilo’s traumatic experience. Bearing in mind the novelist’s temperament, as indicated in various biographical texts and in the accounts of contemporaries, the way in which his adoption of a melancholic outlook becomes concrete in a poetics of affect is highlighted.
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Camilo Castelo Branco Empathy Empatia Melancholy Melancolia Reflexividade Reflexivity Sátira Satire
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Carvalho, C. A. S. (2025). Da melancolia em Camilo. Revista do Centro de Estudos Portugueses, 45(73), 186-208.