Autoritarismo, cerceamento da liberdade e tortura em «Os homens dos pés redondos», de Antônio Torres

Vania Pinheiro Chaves

doi:10.53943/ELCV.0222_14-28

Authoritarianism, restriction of freedom and torture in Antônio Torres’s «Os homens dos pés redondos»

Authors

Vania Pinheiro Chaves CLEPUL, Faculty of Arts, University of Lisbon https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8553-7170

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53943/ELCV.0222_14-28

Keywords:

Romance, authoritarianism, Antônio Torres, Os homens dos pés redondos

Abstract

This article aims to demonstrate that in Os homens dos pés redondos Antônio Torres used innovative aesthetic strategies to build a biting and daring portrait of the dictatorship of António de Oliveira Salazar in Portugal. The novel represents an avant-garde fictional work which offers an implicit denunciation of the dictatorship installed in Brazil with the 1964 military coup. Renewing the tradition of national engaged literature, it describes the authoritarianism, censorship and violence of the dictatorial regimes in both countries.

References

Ricciardi, G. (1988). Escrever. Origem, manu-tenção, ideologia. Libreria Universitaria. Bari

Torres, A. (1973). Os homens dos pés redondos.Francisco Alves. Rio de Janeiro

Torres, A. (1999). Os homens dos pés redondos (3.ª ed.). Record/Francisco Alves. Rio de Janeiro.

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Published

2022-12-29

Issue

No. 9 (2022): Representations of Authoritarianism in Portuguese and Brazilian Literature

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Articles

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