A study of Dinossauro Excelentíssimo, by José Cardoso Pires, in which a classic genre - the fable - comes back and where the writing turns itself in a signal of many senses, being able to interlace new meanings to the ones traditionally established. This scheme gave the author the chance to inquire the quotidian memories of the Salazar s dictatorship, merging in the fiction outstanding events of the recent Portuguese s political history. This master thesis analyses how the narrative is build, stressing the allegoric character of the fable, the way the genre is contextualized in the Portuguese History, the power and censure exhibition during the New State regime and the performance of the author as an intellectual. By systematization, the text is divided in tree thematic items: The Poetics, The Power end The Look, that drive the relevant aspects of this masterpiece.