The way Nelson Rodrigues fictitious narrative is conventionally treated by researchers and specialized criticism does not seem to contemplate dramaturgical aspects that singularize the scriptural construction of his dramatic-literary text. The objective of this thesis is to present and discuss the concept of melodrama that Rodrigues resumes by writing the prose narrative in his own style, which changes the traditional melodramatic formula. This concept involves questions that interrelate sensoriality, gesture, movement, body dramaturgy and vocality in the carpentru of his art-writing, the novel. A piece of writing in which the way of organizing dialogue and indicating body expressions in the next is enough yo question the fringe position of the novel in the novelist s career. The gesture language of the character s body, as Rodrigues repeatedly insists on writing it, suggests emotional reactions that affect the reader; and the dialogue touches him/her with incorporeal energy. In order to not neglect these preponderant aspects inherent to the procedure of theatrical writing of Rodrigues, I propose the reading of the construction of his novel as the process of scenic writing, which has a chocking spectacular dimension and a direct relation with popular spectacles. The reflections proposed in this research, related to the sentitive field and the sensorial perception, aim, through a survey linked to contemporary questions, to contribute to the reading of Nelson Rodrigues prose narrative of book length.