The overall aim of this thesis is to analyze the fable Dinossauro Excelentíssimo, by José Cardoso Pires, identifying the procedures with which the author questions the relationships between censorship and the power of the word and, therefore, the political dimension that takes shape having this relationship as basis. This dissertation investigates, in the work cited, the strategies used by the author to create the story of a dictator character, the Emperor of the Tower of Seven Keys, who manipulates words with the purpose of spreading fear in the Kingdom of Mussels (a Kingdom), which enabled the writer to question the memories of everyday life in the Salazar dictatorship and incorporate, in fiction, historical facts that marked the political and social history of Portuguese society. Thus, the dialogue that exists between history and fiction in investigated with the intention of demonstrating how the dictator censors people s words to build the opaque discourse of power. Finally, it is verified the way in which the image of power is outlined, understandable through the metamorphosis of the Emperor into a Dinosaur.