Zé Américo foi princeso no trono da monarquia

Abstract

Published by Codecri in 1984, it is an essay with the structure of a detective novel, or vice-versa, where the city of João Pessoa, in the 1930s, was the main character of the book. The author stated that he sought to release the delirious Shakespearean figures in the center of the capital of Paraíba, on the eve of the death of the President (as occurs in the death of Julius Caesar in Rome), the victory parade over Princesa and the specter in Elsinore, transported to the fortress of Santa Catarina, in Cabedelo, the preparation for one of the three deaths created for the head of state of Paraíba – this one, based on that of Caesar in the Capitol – was enough to reconstruct the Pedro Américo Square – the magnificent building that was the Post Office on one side, the Santa Rosa Theater on the other, the Police headquarters forming the third side of the quadrilateral, the Chamber of Deputies (later headquarters of the military police) on the fourth.