Abstract
This article analyzes an excerpt from Chico Buarque’s novel, Leite derramado (2009), in which the protagonist articulates the family genealogy to the possession of a whip. The analytical path focuses, on the one hand, on the recurrence and irradiations of the subject in the national literary tradition, and the other, it seeks to understand the fragment as part that, according to the logic of the hermeneutic circle, apprehends the whole of the work.
Keywords:
Chico Buarque; Leite derramado; violence; slavery