This piece of work has as a prior concern to call attention to Nelson Rodrigues narrative work in relation to the characteristics which gave way to his work as well as provides him with a modernity status. Nelson Rodrigues settled himself as an artist, showing the modern life of Rio de Janeiro in the 50 s, by developing a style in which sensation and perception were mixed as in a polyssemic kaleidoscopic game, where language is stablished as a tragic flaw of relations, identifying the singularity of Rio s modernity for being situated between two poles, setting a game between its own tradition and modernity. The fragmented and united view of Nelson Rodrigues place him as A man of his time, as he is able to reach, trough his narrative and columnist point of view, the present moment, taking him from a position typically ephemeral to a permanent one as something that remains in the human soul, or that takes part of it since the immemorial mythological times.The writer would represent a significant character of Rio s cultural history, building himself the city s view trough its typical citizens, the places they live, work and hang out, setting the city s life trough the relations based in love and death.