História e modernidade em Ninho de cobras, de Lêdo Ivo

Abstract

The present paper analyzes Lêdo Ivo s book ‗Nest of snakes (Ninho de cobras), from the perspective of romantic irony, in an inter-relationship with historical research, which the novel openly uses. Thus, we discuss the relationship between memory, history, fiction and metaphorical representation widely used in the text, aspects that serve to the romantic irony and to its unveiled fictional aspect in the romance. In the dissertation, social criticism will also be discussed as long as with the dictatorial authoritarianism and repression shown in the novel of Maceio set in the 1940 s Era Vargas which maintains a convergence of times with the military regime.