Dialéticas neopicarescas

Abstract

The "picaresque novel" was born in Spain between about the mid-sixteenth century with the anonymous fiction O Lazarilho de Tormes. The main character of this kind of novel can be defined as a charater, who lives by cheating, which rejects the job and which uses a language, often colloquial, to narrate his adventures and misadventures. In Brazil we would have the neopícaros (term coined by Mario González) and among some of its representatives are Leonardo of Memórias de um Sargento de Milícias, by Manuel Antonio de Almeida; Macunaíma by Mário de Andrade and Quaderna of A Pedra do Reino by Ariano Suassuna. This article intends to give an introduction to the picaresque genre and then set forth on analyzes of Brazilian representatives of the genre emphasizing the character Quaderna.