RICARDO REIS, PESSOA AND THE DEATH: (MIS)DIRECTIONS OF HISTORY IN SARAMAGO’S FICTION

Authors

  • Wellington Ricardo Fioruci UTFPR-Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná/ UFRGS - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
  • Jociane Maurina Salomão Unicentro - Guarapuava

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2175-3180.v6i11p32-47

Keywords:

José Saramago, history, fiction, postmodernism

Abstract

This study focuses on a critical reading of the novel O Ano da morte de Ricardo Reis
(1984), written by the Portuguese José Saramago, and this paper aims to provide an analysis of the fantastic resource used by the author, that is the presence of a dead character, Fernando Pessoa, who talks to his heteronym Ricardo Reis. The narrative device, as it will be demonstrated in this article, belongs to the postmodern aesthetic current and has the narrative function of exploring dialogically the Portuguese literary universe itself at the same time that discusses the country’s political situation related to the Salazar’s government. Saramago fictionalizes the history by the insertion of elements that dialogue with the fantastic and intertextual construction, strategy that reveals the capture of historical time in the metaphorical fabric of mythical space.

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Author Biographies

  • Wellington Ricardo Fioruci, UTFPR-Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná/ UFRGS - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
    Professor de Teoria Literária na UTFPR e pós-doutorando pelo PPG em Letras da UFRGS
  • Jociane Maurina Salomão, Unicentro - Guarapuava
    Mestranda no Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras da Unicentro - Guarapuava

Published

2014-07-01

How to Cite

Fioruci, W. R., & Salomão, J. M. (2014). RICARDO REIS, PESSOA AND THE DEATH: (MIS)DIRECTIONS OF HISTORY IN SARAMAGO’S FICTION. Revista Desassossego, 6(11), 32-47. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2175-3180.v6i11p32-47