Abstract
In each of the two articles presented here, Raimundo Magalhães Júnior emphasizes and discusses a chronicle by Machado de Assis, which were both published in November 1893 in the column, "A Semana," carried by Gazeta de Notícias. The critic aims to draw attention to these chronicles so that scholars provide them with the due interpretation and explanatory annotations regarding the particularities of the writings' context. In fact, stuck in the turbulent times of Floriano Peixoto, civil war, a state of siege and rumors, these chronicles, where the art of Machado de Assis excels at capturing history and dribbling around the restrictions placed on the press, require a critical look worthy of their writer.
the art of the chronicle; "A Semana"; 1893; the restricted press; Floriano Peixoto