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Moreiras, Alberto - «The Villain at the Center: Infrapolitical Borges». CLCWeb Library of Research and Information. CLCWeb Contents 4.2. Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America. Ed. Sophia A. McClennen and Earl E. Fitz. June 2002.
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Andrade, Mário from «Machado de Assis». Aspectos da Literatura Brasileira. São Paulo: Martins, 1972. p. 95.
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Machado, Aníbal - «Machado de Assis». Diário de Notícias. Rio de Janeiro: June 25, 1939, p. 1-2.
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Pereira, Astrojildo - «Instinto e consciência de nacionalidade» in Machado de Assis. Rio de Janeiro: São José, 1959, p. 43-85.
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Bataille, Georges - Eroticism. Trans. Mary Dalwood. New York; Boyars, 1994, p. 63-4.
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Barthes, Roland - «Les sorties du texte» Oeuvres Complètes. Paris: Seuil, 1994, vol. II, p. 1614-22
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Schwarz, Roberto - Misplaced ideas. Essays on Brazilian culture. Trans. John Gledson. London-New York, Verso, 1992.
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Santiago, Silviano - «Toda a memória do mundo». Folhetim, Folha de S. Paulo, August 13, 1988 p. 3-5.
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I allude here to the considerations on scopic drives that Lacan formulates in his Seminar, Book 11, by appropriating Méduse & Cie by Caillois and Jeune Parque by Valéry. See The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XI. The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. Translation, Alan Sheridan. New York; W. W. Norton, 1998.
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Caillois, Roger - Jeux et Sports. Encyclopédie de la Pléiade. Paris: Gallimard, 1967, p. 162. For a historical discussion on soccer and the «jogo do bicho» in the Belle Époque carioca society, see Herschmann, Micael and Lerner, Kátia -Lance de sorte. Rio de Janeiro; Diadorim, 1993. I have already explored the politics of chance in «The Pedagogical Potential of Interessere» PMLA, Publications of the Modern Language Association, vol. 119, nº 1, jan. 2004, p. 42-7.