O  presente  estudo  busca  engendrar  o  deslinde  dos artifÃcios  da provocação   face   às   novelas   e   aos   diários   de   Lúcio   Cardoso   (1912-1968).
Procuramos enfatizar como o autor explorou diversos estratagemas literários para adensar  a  escrita  de  mal-estar  e  perturbação,  a  tornar  a  provocação  o  mote primordial de seu virtuosismo literário transgressor.
 Before  Lucio  Cardoso’s  novels  this  thesis  pursues to  engender  the unravelling of the artifices that reveal provocation. Through some of his works, it is possible to go over the ontological literary texture explored  by Lucio in order to  know  how  it  answers  his  own  provocative  ideal. We  aim  to  emphasise  how the  Brazilian  author  used  a  range  of  literary  stratagem  to  gather  a piece  of writing that causes discomfort and perturbation. Thus provocation becomes the primordial subject of his literary virtuosity that is also transgressing.