Mateus, anarchist: the “delinquent man” in Amanhã (1901)
Abstract
We aim to analyze Mateus, protagonist of the naturalist novel Amanhã (1901), by Abel Botelho. At the end of the 19th century, Cesare Lombroso wrote Delinquent man (1876) and The anarchists (1894), in which he proposed to draw the profile of a “born delinquent”. In Portugal, Abel Botelho publishes the pentalogy entitled “Social Pathology”, with which he intended to criticize late-century Portuguese society, and of which it is part Amanhã. Due to the historical context, it is suggested that Abel Botelho read the works of Cesare Lombroso to build the protagonist of Amanhã. As we will try to demonstrate, since the childhood of Mateus, we identify characteristics that will form his character as a “delinquent man”.
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