Autoritarismo, cerceamento da liberdade e tortura em Os homens dos pés redondos, de Antônio Torres

Abstract

This article aims to demonstrate that in Os homens dos pés redondos Antônio Torres used innovative aesthetic strategies to build a biting and daring portrait of the dictatorship of António de Oliveira Salazar in Portugal. The novel represents an avant-garde fictional work which offers an implicit denunciation of the dictatorship installed in Brazil with the 1964 military coup. Renewing the tradition of national engaged literature, it describes the authoritarianism, censorship and violence of the dictatorial regimes in both countries.