The route and the routine: escape to the Indies’ landscapes of Gonçalo M. Tavares and Luís de Camões

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https://doi.org/10.11606/va.v0i30.107997

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contemporary portuguese fiction, epic poem, journey literature, hyper-literary reference, The Lusiads revisited on 21th century

Abstract

As a remake of the Camões’ masterpiece, the Gonçalo M. Tavares’ writing process in A Journey to India is a deconstruction of the canonical route in order to show similar literary strategies used in The Lusiads. Furthermore, this procedure reproduces the issues involved in parodist intermediations with the sixteenth-century epic and with James Joyce’s Ulysses. While rewriting the Camonian epic into a kind of counter-epic, Gonçalo M. Tavares subverts the epic versions of the journey through the (anti)heroism of its protagonist, a figure that pilgrims throughout the twenty-first century.

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  • Evelyn Blaut Fernandes, ComPares
    Suma Cum Laude PhD em Literatura de Língua Portuguesa (FLUC/CLP/CAPES). Membro da Associação Internacional de Estudos Íbero-Eslavos. Artigos completos publicados em periódicos nacionais e internacionais, livros, capítulos de livros, trabalhos publicados em anais de congressos, textos artísticos, coluna/crítica de cinema, recensões críticas, relatórios de pesquisa. Destaque para os livros: As dezenove regras do romance policial (2015); Coluna do rato (no prelo); A deriva dos afetos. Ensaios de literatura luso-brasileira (no prelo); Antologia da poesia moche (no prelo); Viagem ao avesso do inferno: leituras da obra de António Lobo Antunes (no prelo).

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Published

2016-12-28

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Vol. 17 No. 2 (2016): Goa - literatura e cultura 2

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FERNANDES, Evelyn Blaut. The route and the routine: escape to the Indies’ landscapes of Gonçalo M. Tavares and Luís de Camões. Via Atlântica, São Paulo, v. 17, n. 2, p. 215–227, 2016. DOI: 10.11606/va.v0i30.107997. Disponível em: https://revistas.usp.br/viaatlantica/article/view/107997.. Acesso em: 28 may. 2024.