Abstract
This essay debates the images of Brazil provided by Alexandra Lucas Coelho in her novels, Vai, Brasil (2013), Deus-dará (2016) and A nossa alegria chegou (2018), by showing how they relate to the images of Brazil in the works of Mário de Andrade and Machado de Assis. In this sense, I depart from the suggestion that Vai, Brasil is more closely related to Machado de Assis, while Deus-dará and A nossa alegria chegou to Mário de Andrade, to argue that this shift, maybe paradoxically, led Lucas Coelho to develop a transatlantic and postcolonial description of Luso-Afro-Brazilian interactions at the expense of a version of Brazil that appears to be less ecological.
Keywords:
Alexandra Lucas Coelho; Machado de Assis; Mário de Andrade