Comportamento Malandro como estratégia de observação: observações da personagem Benedito na peça Casamento de Branco de Altimar de Alencar Pimentel

Abstract

This study made a critical analysis of the behavior of the character Benedito from the play Casamento de Branco, in 1965, by Altimar de Alencar Pimentel from Alagoas, from the perspective of the Dialectic of Malandragem by Antônio Cândido. In this research we observe the behavior of the character Benedito as trickery strategies to subvert the order placed in a society, in which Benedito has no voice. We used Antônio Cândido's literary criticism (Dallectics of Malandragem) as a methodology for this analysis, considering it pertinent to the field of study of the playwright Altimar Pimentel. In the dialogue between Altimar's theater and literature, we believe to establish a line of reasoning appropriate to our understanding of how the forms of coexistence and overcoming established in society at a given time take place.