The purpose of this study is to map the narrative devices used in two novels by Carlos Sussekind. A thorough semiological reading of the book covers points to the interaction between form and content within the process of generating meaning. The use of conventional narrative devices in the context of postmodern literary production links tradition and transgression through a parodic perspective. In Armadilha para Lamartine the duplication of narrative levels is shown to be the main strategy, simultaneously fracturing and generating structural unity. The unclear authorship of the novel generates a paratextual approach. In Que pensam vocês que ele fez the use of frame tales as a narrative device reveals the combination of tradition and transgression, in the form of fragmentation of the discourse and of the narrator`s identity. Diary writing as a narrative method assumes in both novels a distinctive strategic importance because it is, in this case, appropriation and fictionalization of a so-called real diary. This combination of different devices results in a sophisticated narrative structure in both novels.