O cotidiano fatídico na narrativa de Moreira Campos

Abstract

Moreira Campos’ literary art (1914-1994) is highly dense, especially because it explores the psychological aspects of the characters. The misfortune, the suffering, the moral meanness and human insecurity are recurrent themes in his work and are taken from everyday life; thus, it is in everyday life that the personal tragedies happen and where the characters are immersed. From then on, it is intended, in this work, to investigate the existing correspondence between this category and the small dramas portrayed, especially in the short stories written by Moreira Campos. To that end, we read the work The twelve screws (1978), in order to penetrate, a little more, in the literary universe of this great writer from Ceará.