MACHADO DE ASSIS READ BY BRAZILIAN COMMUNISTS (1939-1958)

The article presents a historiographic reconstitution of the debates that the work of the writer Machado de Assis provoked together with Octavio Brandao and Astrojildo Pereira, two fundamental intellectuals in the political and cultural history of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB). The legacy of Machado's work had wide repercussions in debates about the fates of the Brazilian Revolution, the political agenda that guided the intellectual interventions of Pecebist nationalism. This article describes and analyzes a set of writings that Octavio Brandao and Astrojildo Pereira published between 1939 and 1958, dates that marked, respectively, the centenary of birth and the 50th anniversary of the death of Machado de Assis.