OLHAR SOBRE AS MARGENS: UMA LEITURA DE PINGENTES, DE JOÃO ANTÔNIO E ZERO GRAU DE LIBRA, DE CAIO FERNANDO

Abstract

THROUGH THE ANALYSIS OF THE SHORT STORY "PINGENTES", FROM THE BOOK MALHAÇÃO DO JUDAS CARIOCA (1976), WRITTEN BY JOÃO ANTÔNIO, AND THE CHRONICLE "ZERO GRAU DE LIBRA", FROM THE BOOK PEQUENAS EPIFANIAS (1996; NARRATIVE PUBLISHED IN THE NEWSPAPER O ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO IN 1986), BY CAIO FERNANDO ABREU, WE WILL SEEK TO DEMONSTRATE THE WAY EACH OF THE WRITERS PORTRAYS THE SOCIAL MARGINALIZED INDIVIDUALS FROM TWO LARGE BRAZILIAN METROPOLIS, RESPECTIVELY RIO DE JANEIRO AND SÃO PAULO.