Abstract
This article’s purpose is to create a digital graphic reconstitution of Machado de Assis’ literary characters from the narrative “Uma por Outra”, edited in 1897, focusing on the fictional scenario based on the physical relationship between a specific house on the Misericórdia street and houses on "Morro do Castelo", that existed in an urban context and now disappeared. The methodology combines previous studies on the representation with historical digital urban models, responsible for potentialize the documentary information and promoting the points of view of the characters. The article led to finding an approach to using iconography and digital models in order to conclude that the author’s fiction was based on a real site. The main research limitation concerns Castelo Hill disappearance in 1922 and the limited remaining iconographic sources. In addition, research on theoretical studies of representation of the city as a graphic report have taken place. Therefore, the originality of this study deals with interesting literary research and the results and conclusions will serve as reference to further new areas of knowledge about the cities.
Highlights
The history of the beginnings of Rio de Janeiro city located on the disappeared Morro do Castelo is unique and still remains, in a way, unexplored in some of its facets
This article’s purpose is to create a digital graphic reconstitution of Machado de Assis’ literary characters from the narrative “Uma por Outra”, edited in 1897, focusing on the fictional scenario based on the physical relationship between a specific house on the Misericórdia street and houses on “Morro do Castelo”, that existed in an urban context disappeared
We demonstrate the horizons that open up as different fields of knowledge are mediated through digital graphic representation, in an interdisciplinary approach that seeks to articulate Urban History and Literature through cartographic and literary representations that speak to us of Rio de Janeiro in the second half of the 19th century
Summary
The history of the beginnings of Rio de Janeiro city located on the disappeared Morro do Castelo is unique and still remains, in a way, unexplored in some of its facets. The objective of this study is to contribute with the historiography of Rio de Janeiro through the construction of unpublished visual representations based on the story by Machado de Assis: “One for Another” from 1897. The symbolic meaning of the extinction of the hill ended up demonstrating the protagonism and historical importance of this “geographic and urban piece” in the city of Rio de Janeiro, whose narrative is indebted to more research and investigation. This work is justified by proposing drawing as an analysis tool for the construction of new visual representations of Morro do Castelo, which make the articulation between historical mapping and the literary narratives about the city possible, mediated by digital graphic representation in the construction of the image of the city center between the middle of the century 19th and the early 20th
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