Work and trickery in Marafa by Marques Rebelo

Authors

  • Manoel Freire Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte
  • Maria Clediane de Oliveira Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7917.2016v21n2p193

Abstract

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-7917.2016v21n2p193

In Marafa, Marques Rebelo concocts the social dynamics in Rio de Janeiro, bringing into light a great character gallery to compose two distinct universes, which do not communicate or intermingle with one another. On the one hand there is the sphere of order and work, in which belong the individuals who follow the bourgeois social patterns, seeking to live in an honest and dignified way, through labor and self-effort; on the other hand, lies the space of disorder and hustling [malandragem], in which are inserted those who reject the work ethics and live through conning, prostitution and everything related to a licentious life. In this context, the ethics of those who live through hustling and idleness prevails, for, in an excluding and competitive society, in which activism is a founding characteristic, in general those who resource to illegal means or marginal artifices to fulfill their goals succeed, whilst those who resign to their inferior condition end up defeated.

Author Biographies

Manoel Freire, Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte

Possui graduação em Letras pela Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte (1995), mestrado em Estudos da Linguagem (Literatura comparada), pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (2001), doutorado em Teoria e História Literária (Literatura Brasileira) pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (2009). É professor da adjunto da Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte,  Campus de Pau dos Ferros, atuando na área de literatura Brasileira, na graduação e na pós-graduação.

Maria Clediane de Oliveira, Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte

Mestre em Letras pela Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte - UERN, 2014. Especialista em Literatura e Estudos Culturais também pela Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte - UERN, em 2011. E Graduada em Letras - Habilitação em Língua Portuguesa, no Núcleo Avançado de Educação Superior de Umarizal - NAESU/UERN, em 2009.

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Published

2016-12-06

How to Cite

FREIRE, Manoel; DE OLIVEIRA, Maria Clediane. Work and trickery in Marafa by Marques Rebelo. Anuário de Literatura, [S. l.], v. 21, n. 2, p. 193–209, 2016. DOI: 10.5007/2175-7917.2016v21n2p193. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/literatura/article/view/2175-7917.2016v21n2p193. Acesso em: 4 jan. 2026.

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 2 (2016)

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