Memorial do convento, an interesting historical novel by José Saramago, was published in Portugal in 1982. The year 2022 marks the fortieth anniversary of its publication, as well as the centenary of the birth of its author. In this novel the reader is faced with unexpected, fantastic and marvellous situations. The second volume of what we can call Saramago’s “historical cycle”, following Levantado do Chão, Memorial do convento partially recovers the themes and style of the previous work, developing and expanding them.…
Tag: Letteratura portoghese
La tematica del naufragio in Luís Vaz De Camões
This article investigates the shipwreck theme in relation to Portugal’s greatest epic poet, Luís Vaz de Camões. In particular, the contribution aims at analyzing how, on the one hand, the theme is linked to the biography of the author of The Lusíadas, and how, on the other hand, the subject is connected to a specific genre that was popular in Portuguese literature at his time: the so-called relatos de naufragios, which was a heavily codified genre narrating shipwrecks and maritime disasters. The article examines how such a correlation works.…