This article aims to analyze the characters Isaías Caminha and Gonzaga de Sá, both protagonists of novels Recordações do Escrivão (1998) Vida e morte M. J. Sá (1997), by pre-modernist writer Lima Barreto, through lens Lacanian Materialism proposed Slovenian philosopher critic Slavoj Žižek. Initially, we present author a brief view literary movement which he is linked. As it relatively new trend...