Satyricon: riso, ironia e sátira em crônicas de João Ubaldo Ribeiro

Abstract

This dissertation aims, as main goal, presenting the chronicles written by João Ubaldo Ribeiro on column Satyricon, published in Jornal da Bahia between January of 1969 and August of 1970. Besides it, the principal themes are analyzed in a panoramic form, as well as its social, political and literary importance. It was extended the study of selected corpus of chronicles in which was found the laughter, in the ways of irony and satire, reflecting the political reality of the city of Salvador in Bahia. Through this study, was confirmed the relevant function of the reader in the reception and production of meaning of the texts. Finally, some textual strategies of the narrator were analyzed, that intended to present the impacts of the censure and the military government in 1964, and their consequences upon the work of writers and intellectuals of that period.