The psychotic soliloquy of O Rei Imaginário reveals itself as a dramatic exercise of this tragic feeling of life transversal to the entire work of Raul Brandão (1867-1930). Teles, a magistrate who finds himself confined to the walls of a dungeon, utters words that echo in cloister, vain: born of an illustrious family, he later fell into disgrace. Starting from this premise, the character establishes a multiple and fragmentary, disconnected discourse; Thus, Teles faces loneliness running after the dream, an evasion created by illusion – in short, an anesthetizing mechanism that allows expelling the pain of existence.