From Inês to Mary: Love in a Contemporary Epic

Authors

  • Luciana Salles Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37508/rcl.2025.nEsp.a1356

Keywords:

Contemporary Literature, Gonçalo M. Tavares, Camões, Reinterpretation

Abstract

This article explores the “return of the epic” in contemporary Portuguese literature, focusing on Gonçalo M. Tavares’s A Journey to India, a modern reinterpretation of The Lusiads. The work reimagines the classic epic by replacing the collective hero with the individual, emphasizing mythol ogy and subjectivity over history. The protagonist, Bloom, bridges tradition and modernity, engaging with figures like Leopold Bloom (Ulysses) and Harold Bloom. Reinterpretations of characters and episodes, such as Adamastor and Inês de Castro, highlight a tension between permanence and transformation. The article concludes with a literary collage experiment, interweaving verses from Camões and Tavares, reaffirming the vitality of the epic as a space for aesthetic and cultural reflection in the 21st century.

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Author Biography

Luciana Salles, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Professora de Literatura Portuguesa na Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro e coordenadora do Grupo de Pesquisas Interdisciplinares: Linguagens, Mídias e Cultura Pop (UFRJ/CNPq). Atualmente se dedica a pesquisar a literatura portuguesa contemporânea e a indústria de cultura pop em língua portuguesa.

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CAMÕES, Luís de. Os Lusíadas. Porto: Porto Editora, 2011.

HEGEL, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich . Fenomenologia do espírito. Trad. Paulo Meneses. 9. ed. Petrópolis: Vozes. 2014.

SILVEIRA, Jorge Fernandes da. O retorno do épico. Rio de Janeiro: Oficina Raquel, 2023.

TAVARES, Gonçalo M. Uma viagem à Índia. Lisboa: Caminho, 2010.

capa da Convergência Lusíada Especial sobre Camões - parte 1

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Published

2025-06-22

How to Cite

Salles, L. (2025). From Inês to Mary: Love in a Contemporary Epic. Converência Lusíada, 36(Esp.), 283–298. https://doi.org/10.37508/rcl.2025.nEsp.a1356

Issue

Vol. 36 No. Esp. (2025): Five hundred Camões, the reverberated poet – 1

Section

Scattered rays

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