Abstract
Beyond reasserting the author’s continuing commitment to a revolutionary socialist worldview, Sabine demonstrates through the detailed analysis of each of the five Saramago novels in question—Levantado do chão; Memorial do convento; O ano da morte de Ricardo Reis; A jangada de pedra; and História do cerco de Lisboa—the revisions that such a commitment entails in the face of the increasingly equivocal (and enabling) authoritarian forces of neo-liberalism and globalization that exclude subaltern voices.
Highlights
In the introduction, Sabine discusses the emergence of Saramago’s fiction within and in response to several historical, literary, and intellectual contexts
Beyond reasserting the author’s continuing commitment to a revolutionary socialist worldview, Sabine demonstrates through the detailed analysis of each of the five novels in question—Levantado do chão; Memorial do convento; O ano da morte de Ricardo Reis; A jangada de pedra; and História do cerco de Lisboa—the revisions that such a commitment entails in the face of the increasingly equivocal authoritarian forces of neo-liberalism and globalization that exclude subaltern voices
The question of José Saramago’s representation of history or, perhaps more rigorously, the philosophy or philosophies of history to which those Journal of Lusophone Studies 4.2 (Fall 2019) representations may adhere have not been the focus of Saramaguian scholarship for almost two decades
Summary
Sabine discusses the emergence of Saramago’s fiction within and in response to several historical, literary, and intellectual contexts. José Saramago: History, Utopia, and the Necessity of Error.
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