Abstract
The aim of this research is to analyze two novels: As Intermitências da Morte (2005), by José Saramago, and Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas (1880), by Machado de Assis, in order to focus on the representation of death in face of the human reality and the irony expressed by the narrator in both novels. The comparative analysis will be developed tracing the concept of representation from Ar…