Os lugares do morto
O que faz Eça na literatura portuguesa contemporânea
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10261972 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pedro Marques (0000-0002-2849-6250, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 19-38 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Luso-Brazilian Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-7413 • E-ISSN: 1548-9957 |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3368/lbr.56.1.19 |
| OpenAlex | W2964997949 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
In “Os portugueses não gostam de asas” (2008), José Eduardo Agualusa draws on aspects of contemporary Portugal and submits them to the brutal verdict of a deceased Eça de Queirós. In “O regresso de José Maria” (2015), by João de Melo, Ega runs into Eça in 21st-century Lisbon, and both deride the provincialism of the Portuguese. These works capitalize on Eça’s legacy (and its heralded topicality) to carry out a work of identity interrogation. This article aims to understand to what extent Eça is being used as an interlocutor in such a discussion, or as a privileged observer, holder of an unquestionable truth about what it is to be Portuguese. The works of Agualusa and Melo reveal that Eça acts as a discursive genre that they use as shorthand to convey a worldview about Portugal, but they also struggle with the rules and routines of that genre while searching for an understanding of what Portugal is
Aesthetics · Art · Humanities · Identity (music · Interrogation · Linguistics · Political science · Portuguese · Sociology · Verdict · Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies · History · Law · Linguistics and Language Studies · Literature, Culture, and Criticism · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |