This research has as main objective to analyze the construction of the Northeast characters in the books Vidas Secas (1938), of Graciliano Ramos and A hora da estrela (1977), of Clarice Lispector, as well as their respective adaptations for the cinema. We will investigate the strategies used by the directors (Nelson Pereira dos Santos and Suzana Amaral) and their teams in the presentation of the characters Fabi...