Résumé
This text invites us to decipher an exceptional world halfway between the extraordinaryand ambitious project of a city and society, Brasília, and the ordinary daily life experienced on its margins (Cidade Livre). The aim is to show how João Almino'snovel (Hôtel Brasília) manages to capture a socio-spatial reality with a strong historicalcontent, reflecting an ideological stance and embodying an extraordinary politicalorientation, in order to deliver an enhanced version that draws on memory and emotion. It is precisely here that a proximity is sought in order to anchor the power of a capital city's destiny in the ordinary daily life of an improvised city. The analysis itself, inspired by geocriticism, focuses on the close relationship between reality and fiction.