Salgado, o inesperado: o Brasil nos quatro romances de Plínio Salgado

Abstract

This article describes, in the first place, the biography and the political activities of Plínio Salgado, the leader of Brazilian fascist inclined movement called Integralismo. Later, it describes and analyses his four novels, within the frame of the Brazilian Literature in the 30’s, and what role they had played within the author s political project. It also analyses the author’s social criticism of the brazilian society at that time