“Qualquer semelhança com fatos ou personagens da vida real é simples coincidência”: história e cultura política brasileira em “brasílio” (1968), de Oscar Dias Corrêa

Abstract

This paper presents a study that seeks to relate History and Literature through the content analysis of the piece of work “Brasílio” (1968), by Oscar Dias Corrêa, while stressing the historical aspects and references present in such book, in addition to the elements of the national political culture known as patrimonialism, clientelism and bachelorism. Through bibliographical research, we sought to investigate and present the author’s biography so that, subsequently, we could delve into the universe of the work, tracing, as the title of this dissertation hoghlights, the History and Brazilian Political Culture in the form of its aforementioned elements. Under the eyes of its author, “Brasílio”, written in the early 1960s, brings in its plot references from the Oligarchic Republic, the New State and the Fourth Republic, with representations of events and political practices that bring it closer to some of the Brazilian own policital and cultural elements.