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| Author(s): |
Marcos Aparecido Lopes
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem |
| Defense date: | 2005-09-09 |
| Examining board members: |
Haquira Osakabe;
Constança Marcondes Cesar;
Maria Clara Lucchetti Bingemer;
Maria Lúcia Dal Farra;
Yara Frateschi Vieira
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| Advisor: | Haquira Osakabe |
| Abstract | |
The objective of this thesis is to demonstrate the existence of a given dialectics of the sacred and the profane as well as a hermeneutics in José Saramago's novels. Dialectics should be understood as the sacralization and desacralization that organize the narrational structure and that, aiming at a radical criticism of the idea of transcendence, affect the fictional discourse modality in itself. Hermeneutics is an interpretive game, in which the novel takes hold of texts concerned with both the religious and cultural western traditions, proposes a trenchant reading of this tradition to the reader and, above ali, shapes an interpretation of itself within the inner side of the narrative. This thesis stands up for the concept of allegory as being a hermeneutic tool which "imposes" an interpretation of the narrated material upon the reader. The first reflections on the sacred, the profane, and the atheism act as a framework that gives track to Saramago's fictional constructs within the discussion abiding the sense of sacredness in the modern world. To understand the costs, benefits and the sense of hermeneutics as a practice regarding the narrative frugality, it was sought to describe the operation of a metaphoric system within the following literary corpus: Baltasar and Blimunda and The History of the Siege of Lisbon. In The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and Manual of Painting and Caligraphy, the grounds of this hermeneutics were verified within the gloss rhetorical model. In the remaining novels by José Saramago, the recurrences of three basic procedures related to his writing were located: the dialectic, the hermeneutic and the stylistic. In addition, there was an effort to understand how the critics of Saramago responded to the presence of this hermeneutics in his works and how they have inserted this writer in the Portuguese fictional tradition. At last, it was requested whether the novelist's dialectics and hermeneutics, whose foundations are the concepts of gloss and allegory, lead the ideas of immanence and of unlimited interpretation up to the uttermost consequences (AU) | |