A formação da escrita saramaguiana

Abstract

Under the interest of investigating the formation of writing of José Saramago (1922-2010),this dissertation, in a perspective of diachronic and synchronic analysis, aims to study, mainly, the construction of first novels of this Portuguese writer. Thus, we propose a typology offictional components and literary-linguistic resources, present in writings produced and or published from 1947 until 1980, abandoned and or accentuated, in this initial phase, that configure the foundational aspects of his work. Our aims are: (i) to conceptualize worldviews and ambiences, that formed the saramaguian writing, from, respectively, the notions of narrator and character, of time and spaces, arising from the novelistic production and the writer’s genological diversity; (ii) to identify the fictionalization process of the history-time relationship, mediated by ideas of memory and imagination, in this demarcated corpus; (iii) toresearch foundations on intertext and other voices (echoes), and on intertextuality as na aesthetic-stylistic operation, that was intermingling the initial journey of the characters and the narrator, assuming a Saramago’s intertextual rhetoric; and (iv) to demonstrate a genesis ofthe saramaguian novel, mediated by comparisons, developments and relationships among the novels (Terra do Pecado, Claraboia, Manual de Pintura e Caligrafia e Levantado do Chão) with other genres, at this phase, and other narratives of the same genre, from another phases,when it is appropriate and valid to be called. In an exploratory and theoretical-bibliographic research, the present dissertation work is based, in addition to the previous Literary Criticism about this phase of the writer and some self-criticism, in an aesthetic and historiographical approach, but also in studies on literary text and intertext, from the concept of memory, permeating both the notion of imagination and the echo, and it underlines the Aesthetic of Reception and Literature and Psychoanalysis. As the writing was formed and found its authorial voice, the mold (peripathetic, fabulous and intertextual) of the saramaguian novel was outlined and gained the contours, that we can observe, and for which the author was recognized, in novels of posterior phases.

Date of Award	22 Jun 2021
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	José Cândido de Oliveira Martins (Supervisor)