Releituras da tradição: Pode um desejo imenso (2002), de Frederico Lourenço

Abstract

Based on the perception of some affinities between the presuppositions of a poetics of postmodernism, as outlined by Linda Hutcheon (1991), and the novelistic plot of Pode um desejo imenso (2002), by the Portuguese writer Frederico Lourenço, we propose a reading of the fictional work in focus, observing the revisitations proposed by the author, sometimes from a classical heritage in the construction of characters that reinvigorate and rewrite the lines of a homoaffective relationship (in connection with the pederasty of Ancient Greece), sometimes from a literary camonian tradition, in which one of the protagonists tries to present a lecture on the homoerotic echoes in one of Camões' rhymes. In a kind of projection, Frederico Lourenço re-reads both the Platonic postulates and the Camões lyrical nuances, creating a story of a couple of characters who dare to say the name of the love that unites them.