LIMA, Ruth Layane Alves de.
Resumo:
From the perspective of the rogue, the Brazilian anti-hero, this study proposes an
analysis of the character Max, the protagonist of the play Ópera do Malandro (1978),
by Chico Buarque de Holanda, as a malandro, a branch of the anti-hero identifiable in
Brazilian literature. Max is a persona that involves selfishness, trickery and cunning,
which enables him to act as a criminal, tax evader and manipulator of the people
around him. In this sense, Buarque's work in question highlights a character who
performs a representation of this country marked by institutional corruption and the
prevalence of the <jeitinho brasileiro=. Regarding the analysis itself, the concepts of
anti-hero, malandro and trickster served as the theoretical basis of the research. Thus,
the analysis of the drama reveals a connection between the character and contexts,
namely the context of the writing - the Military Dictatorship (1964-1985), more precisely
the period in which AI-5 was in force, and the internal context depicted in the fiction -
the Era Vargas. This is a bibliographic and qualitative research, with character and plot
analysis supported by authors such as Campbell (2007), Jung (2002; 2008), Prado
(1988), Matta (1997) and others.
