The Canon Between Statues and Words: Camões & Company in José Saramago

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37508/rcl.2023.nEsp.a850
Keywords: Saramago, Camões, canon, intertextuality, intermediality

Abstract

As an inescapable figure of the Portuguese canon, Camões is one of the key authors in José Saramago’s library, and he stands out in the literary landscape of The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984). Taking into ac­count other studies on the subject, this paper seeks to analyze how this novel addresses both Camões and part of its reception. The main goal is to show that more than one Camões is presented throughout the nar­rative and that the representation of the canon in Saramago in general passes through the revision of what has already been said and done with it, passes through the reading of other paintings of the same place, inev­itably transformed, if not created, by them.

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Author Biography

Sara Grünhagen, Sorbonne Nouvelle / Universidade de Coimbra

Doutora em Literatura Portuguesa pela Université Sor­bonne Nouvelle, em cotutela com a Universidade de Coimbra. É autora de José Saramago et son atelier d’écriture (Honoré Champion, 2022) e coeditora de A ofi­cina de Saramago (INCM, 2022) e Characters and Figures: Conceptual and Crit­ical Approaches (Almedina, 2021). Atualmente leciona na Sorbonne Nouvelle

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Published
2023-08-25
How to Cite
Grünhagen, S. (2023). The Canon Between Statues and Words: Camões & Company in José Saramago. Converência Lusíada, 34(Esp.), 40-58. https://doi.org/10.37508/rcl.2023.nEsp.a850
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Vol. 34 No. Esp. (2023): Under the light of the skylight: the centenary of Saramago
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