Reflections about revisiting the past on two novels by José Eduardo Agualusa

Abstract

This article proposes some reflections about the revision of history through literature in the novels “A conjura” (1989) and “O vendedor de passados” (2004), both from the Angolan writer José Eduardo Agualusa. Both books allow us to think about the subject in a different way: the first remember historical facts and names of Angola from the end of the 19th century, intertwining “fiction and reality”, a procedure adopted in the second novel by the protagonist Felix Ventura