Abstract
Dom Quixote em cordel (2005), by J. Borges, is an adaptation of Cervantes’smasterpiece to a Brazilian scenery; the renowned folk artist represents a number ofscenes from Cervantes’s novel proposing the identification of its characters with sometypical individuals from the Northeastern backlands, especially those related tobanditry. The objective of this article is to conduct a brief analysis of Borges’s poem,in which it is given special attention to the identification between the imaginaryterritories of La Mancha and Brazilian Northeast. Under this perspective, historicalcharacters, such as the highwaymen Lampião and Maria Bonita, play an important roleas representatives of Brazilian irredentism. They are considered, in the work of Borges,emblems of peculiar aesthetics highwaymen.
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