This article intends to present the work of Mário de Sá Carneiro, entitled "The Confession of
Lucius", which portrays the love triangle between Ricardo-Marta-Lúcio. It is an untraceable
story of Lucius' confession. Being a novel that has aspects of Modernism and embraces the
Decadentista movement by the theme portrayed, it presents a writing of easy understanding
breaking with tradition by expressing the homo-heterosexuality of the characters of the
nineteenth century, the conflict existing in the mind of Lucius between his psychological and
the world, the real-unreal, dream or madness of the i-lyric. Among the subjects addressed in the
narrative are the duplicity of the characters and the hallucination Marta-Ricardo and Lúcio, the
identity or otherness of Mário de Sá Carneiro with Lucius, the autobiographical relationship
with his fictional work. Thus, the present work intends to analyze the work of Sá-Carneiro from
the literary perspective observing aspects such as the double, the fictional creation and the
representation of the feminine, in which the research methodology adopted was based on the
theoretical perspective.
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