The conflicts in Rio das Flores, by Sousa Tavares

Authors

  • Lilian Reichert Coelho Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/va.v0i31.133504

Keywords:

contemporary literature, history, politics, historical novel

Abstract

This text presents a reading of the Contemporary novel Rio das flores (2008), written by the Portuguese writer Miguel Sousa Tavares, in the perspective of the relations among Literature, History and Politics. The main goal was to analyze the different modes the novel gets along with the historical event and its vestiges. The effort here was guided by a reflection on the political meanings of the main character’s political positions that are explicit opposed. As conclusion, we have noticed  the overpast and the everlasting conflicts related to the historical novel as form as well as to the relations between characters and to the contemporary Portuguese Literary scene, highlighting the (um)comfortable place occupied by Sousa Tavares’ narrator.     

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Author Biography

  • Lilian Reichert Coelho, Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia
    Professora Adjunta do Instituto de Humanidades, Artes e Ciências do Campus Paulo Freire da Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia. Professora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estado e Sociedade (UFSB) e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação (UFRB).Pesquisadora CNPq.

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Published

2017-12-20

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 1 (2017): Literatura e política nos países de língua portuguesa

Section

Dossiê 31: Literatura e Política nos países de língua portuguesa

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How to Cite

COELHO, Lilian Reichert. The conflicts in Rio das Flores, by Sousa Tavares. Via Atlântica, São Paulo, v. 18, n. 1, p. 175–193, 2017. DOI: 10.11606/va.v0i31.133504. Disponível em: https://revistas.usp.br/viaatlantica/article/view/133504.. Acesso em: 12 may. 2024.