Entre Lampião e Dom Quixote: Moacyr Scliar a Partir de “Mês de Cães Danados”

Authors

  • Ana Cecilia Agua de Melo IEL/Unicamp

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-8051.cllh.2017.142463

Abstract

This article focuses on Mês de cães danados (The Month of Damned Dogs) (1978), a novel in which Moacyr Scliar put on scene the Campanha da Legalidade (Legality Campaign) led by the then governor of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Leonel Brizola, after president Jânio Quadros resigned in 1961. The discussion is about how the narrator-protagonist marks the emergence of the picaresque first person that would persist until the end of Scliar’s career, making itself present in the historical panoramas of Sonhos tropicais (Tropical Dreams) and A majestade do Xingu (The Lord of the Xingu), among several of his other works. Covering the gaucho writer’s debut in the so-called young adult literature, this article shows how the narrator’s tendency to be informative gains ground to the detriment of the fragmentation observed in Mês de cães danados.

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Author Biography

  • Ana Cecilia Agua de Melo, IEL/Unicamp
    Doutora em Teoria e História Literária pelo IEL/Unicamp.

Published

2018-01-23

Issue

Section

DOSSIÊ MOACYR SCLIAR

How to Cite

Melo, A. C. A. de. (2018). Entre Lampião e Dom Quixote: Moacyr Scliar a Partir de “Mês de Cães Danados”. Cadernos De Língua E Literatura Hebraica, 15, 93-109. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-8051.cllh.2017.142463