This dissertation aims at analysing some mechanisms of state power put into play in the novel Balada da Praia dos Cães, by José Cardoso Pires. Following some theories of Louis Althusser about the Ideological State Apparatuses and Michel Foucault s essays concerning the positive effects of power and the utopical aim of an omnivident action of state power, this dissertation pursue the construction of some assumptions for an holistic apprehension of some salazarist culture s mecanisms of construction and maintenance, in its more institutional instance and even on the intimacy of social subjects. Studied and analyzed from a selection of theoretical reading and close reading of novel s excerpts, aspects as the construction of state fictions and an Economy of Truth that makes the management of the circulation of such fictions, the paranoid outcomes created on society and also into the proper body of States employees as a result of the the effort to achieve the utopical omnivident power and the State action into social narrative web.