O pecado no conto a Igreja do Diabo, de Machado de Assis.

Abstract

This monograph, titled Sin in the Devil's Church, by Machado de Assis, had as its objective the accomplishment of a textual analysis focused on sin, recurrent fact throughout the story, identifying it in three instances in which it classifies as, the sin of the devil in relation to God, the sin of humanity, and finally the sin of the narrative. For the theoretical contribution, we are based on the authors Aquino (2001), Larrosa (2003), on the discourse genres such as Bakhtin (1997) and Marcuschi (2003 and 2008), as well as authors who consider definitions drawn from the International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology, by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer and Jr. Bruce K. Waltke; Systematic Theology, by Louis Berkhof. Systematic Theology. Due to the object of study, a descriptive-interpretative qualitative research is developed. In this work, we try to show how sin appears as something preexisting and that it is not only in the human sphere, but also in the spiritual realm. For that purpose, the tale of the church of the devil by Machado de Assis, which is part of the book Histories without a date (1884), was analyzed, presenting several moments in which we can perceive sin as a constant, that is, with the presence of occurrences in the which the text addresses sin explicitly and implicitly. With this we see that Machado de Assis makes a dialogue between the biblical text and his story.