The article presents an analysis of the personage Bode Francisco Orelana created by the cartunista Henrique de Souza Filho - Henfil in the initial years of the decade of 1970. This personage was used to place in quarrel the coercion restored for the dictatorship on the intellectuals and too much producing groups of culture, the paper politician of the intellectuality in the repressive context, the debates intraintelectuaisand the problem of the autocensura, fruit of the terror propagated for the military censorship.The proposal central is to designate the engaged condition of the author and its workmanship, presenting it as part of a mechanism of fight and an effort of resistance that collaborated for the revival and/or the formation of identities in the citizens.
political cultures; intellectuals; military dictatorship.