CARNAVALIZATION OF THE LAW AS A POSSIBLE KEY OF ONE THE GATEWAYS OF THE GREEN HOUSE

Literature, like a glass, enables one to see reality from another perspective. The present article will analyze the legal context from the short story "The Alienist", by the Brazilian writer Machado de Assis, first published in 1882. It is intended to problematize the way of producing law, denouncing Common Sense Theoretician of the Jurists and the enclosure of the Right by the dominant paradigm, using the metaphors of that literary work. Obviously, following in the footsteps of Luiz Alberto Warat and in his inspiration in Bakhtinian thought point to the Carnavalization of law as a possible alternative. The method used was the dialectic, placing two distinct universes, literature and law side by side, in order to promote dialogue between these worlds. Thus, the work was structured in two chapters, the first one aimed at a properly literary understanding and the second making the convergence of Machadian literature to law.