Nelson Rodrigues

The objective of this research focused on analyzing the forms and content of tragedy and the tragic in Nelson Rodrigues'' dramaturgical work. Thus the central objective was to make an aesthetic and hermeneutic analysis. It is obvious that it is canonical that Nelson Rodrigues made tragedy and the tragic and there are several defenses to these terms for the playwright''s work. However this paper argues that Nelson made tragedy in a contradictory and paradoxical way: his tragedy is a flaw but thisflaw inherent and is in the very structure of language and it is the foundation of modernist tragedy. Therefore the central argument of this research is that after the fall of the Greek world one only makes tragedy and arouses the tragic in the modern era by failing.