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In this article, I analyze the "transgressive readings and written" in the book of Moacyr Scliar. In order to accomplish that, I use the concept of reading as meaningful production (CERTEAU, 2009; GOULEMOT, 2001), and the history of the reading (CHARTIER, 1999, 2002). As result, I indicate that there is not just "one" transgressive reading and writing, as that presented by analysts considering the way Scliar parodies the Bible, using the character feia, in the second part of the book; but "transgressive readings and written" that are manifested in the two plots that constitute the work. I propose that if the transgressions of reading and writing of the first part are not understood, the narrative sequence is compromised. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims at analyzing the relation between the book O cavaleiro inexistente and the context in which the Italian writer Italo Calvino lived when he wrote the book; more specifically, it searches to find in the narrative references to issues that troubled the author's mind in that period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the context of Christmas celebrations marked by emotions, the text of Matthew 2, verses 1 to 12, tends to receive superficial and frivolous interpretations. By means of a purely theological interpretation, some people see the Magi playing the role of the gentiles who come to Jesus in order to attain salvation. This article seeks to offer a different interpretation by analyzing the passage from a historical perspective, especially regarding the Magi. This is central to the understanding of the text, in particular the tense relationship between the Magi and Herod. These people will be placed in the context of the disputes among great Western and Eastern powers when Jesus Christ was born. Emphasis will be given to the literary structures that manifest the principal and secondary aspects of the text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]