Viagens da literatura : construção do sujeito e do texto na visão de José Saramago

Abstract

Leaning over the theme trip in Jose Saramago s literature, this thesis considers to discuss how it constitutes in the author s literary work more than a subject, also a writing model. As a trip through literature, the text articulates itself with other texts (intertextuality) and in an internal dialogue with texts of the proper author (autotextuality). Simultaneously, the track of the text seems to indicate a subject who thinks about the world, undertaking a search of himself while he carries through the search of the other (reader) through the writing. For this, it is appealed not only to the analysis of the intertextual strategies, but also to the narrator analysis as strategy of the reader projection in the text, and of the world vision of the author (related to a baroque view, in the terms of Sarduy). As object, texts of different genres and moments of the writing of the author are analyzed: The Traveler s Baggage (chronic, 1973), Manual of Painting and Calligraphy (novel, 1977), Journey to Portugal (trip book, 1981), The Tale of the Unknown Island (short story, 1997) and Death with Interruptions (novel, 2005).