A representação alegórica da ditadura militar em “O Minossauro”, de Benedicto Monteiro: fragmentação e montagem

Abstract

This Dissertation Representação Alegórica da Ditadura Militar em O Minossauro, de Benedicto Monteiro: Fragmentação e Montagem makes an analysis of the allegorical elements characterized by the fragmentation and assembly of the work, the narrative strategies of the author, and the relationship between the work and the social context of military despotism in Brazil in the 1970s. The theoretical studies were complemented by interviews – with Benedicto Monteiro and other informers – that added important information to the enlightenment and systematization of questions relating the author’s life and work. The research found out – in O Minossauro, representative novel of the literary production of the region of Amazonas in the 1970s – Flagrant presence of allegorical elements (fragmentation end assembly) used in the narrative strategies by the writers of this period. These characteristics range the novel of the writer from Pará to his congeners of the 1970s. The importance of this novel is the fact that Benedicto Monteiro dialogued with this shadowy period of the Brazilian history and established a place: the state of Pará as a romantic character of the work, object of this Dissertation.