ABSTRACT
This essay aims to analyze the film adaptation project of the novel “Amar, verbo intransitive”, produced by Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes in the end of the 1960s. It is proposed connecting the formal and thematic choices made by the author with other meaningful aspects of his trajectory. Thus, it is expected recomposing the aesthetic and theoretical positions developed in the face of the military dictatorship. In this sense, Salles Gomes’ resource to fiction seems to form a central move in a broader strategy of intellectual reconfiguration.
KEYWORDS:
Bourgeoisie; stupidity; masculinity