"The Path to the statues": Camões' virtualities in Saramago

Authors

  • Gerson Luiz Roani Universidade Federal de Viçosa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/2183-847X_10_5

Keywords:

Luís de Camões, José Saramago, Portuguese identity, desacralization

Abstract

In The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, José Saramago proposes to revisit Camões and his work as the underlying support upon which Portuguese historical and literary identity was formed and consolidated. Such revisiting entails desacralization. Camões’s monumentality, as an emblematic author of Portuguese Literature, is not denied in the novel, but critically (re)considered.

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Published

2020-09-28

Issue

Vol. 10 (2020): As palavras (in)visíveis. Estudos para Carlos Reis

Section

Secção Temática

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