This study aims to establish a comparative analysis between novels of the twentieth century
Brazilian literature, regarding the approach taken by the works of social and historical
phenomenon of the cangaço. The works Fogo Morto of José Lins do Rego and the Os
Desvalidos of Francisco Dantas represent two different moments of northeast fictional
production. The first work is inserted into the fiction of the '30s and '40s. The Fogo Morto
consists in the tenth novel of the writer represented by character Jose Amaro, saddler that
turns into helper outlaw Antonio Silvino. The second works published in 1993 represents
regional fiction. The novel is based in the point of view of character Coriolano that unlike
Jose Amaro he demonstrates hatred by cangaço represented by Lampião. The comparative
analysis of the work was preceded by a historical study of the cangaço, as well as, the
ambiguous characterization of the “cangaçeiro” presents in the northeast popular imagination.
Indeed, the cangaceiro is represented as hero and sometimes seen as outlaw. The
contradictory point of view appears in the two novels analyzed in this work. The historical
approach of the cangaço is made from studies of authors such as Facó Rui (1983), Maria
Isaura Pereira de Queiroz (1977) and Luis Bernardo Pericás (2010). It was also essential a
brief survey of Camara Cascudo (2005) which helps to understand the cangaceiro as a
regional folk hero. Finally, for the comparative study between of Fogo Morto and Os
Desvalidos were used works of authors such as José Paulo Paes (1995) and Sonia Lucia
Ramalho de Farias (2006), which supply important elements to relation between works of
nature regionalist produced by writers from the Northeast.
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