Abstract
ABSTRACTSocialist ideals as opposed to bourgeois and capitalist society appeared previously in the first Moacyr Scliar short stories. The theme returns in the novel Eu vos abraço, milhões (2010), whose action takes place between the late twenties and early thirties of the twentieth century, when Brazil and, specifically, Rio de Janeiro, then the nation's capital, go through changes and revolutions, experienced internally and externally by the protagonist, a laborer who works on the building of the Christ the Redeemer statue on Corcovado mountain. The plot synthesizes the representation by Scliar of the modernization of Brazilian society and the role of political and religious ideologies in this process, highlighting the ambiguous and contradictory nature of individuals and of national life.
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