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A partir de Jorge Luís Borges, procurarei desenvolver uma reflexão sobre a presença da “morte” na literatura ocidental e, mais especificamente, na literatura portuguesa moderna e contemporânea (com especial incidência nos Modernistas e em José Saramago), signo esse assumido como noção implica na habilidade de entender, polifonicamente, a “morte do Homem” e a “morte de Deus” como noções comprometidas, entre outras, com: a inquietação existencial e metafísica da finitude; a relação com a ideia de absoluto; a sensação de concretização de uma liberdade (im)perfeita; a desmitologização e a falência das grandes narrativas humanistas; a despossessão linguística e literária do sujeito a que, paradoxalmente, conduz uma profunda consciência que o sujeito tem de si; a relação entre o sujeito individual e a coletividade; a consciência neófita da “imortalidade cósmica” que decorre da mais profunda intuição tanatológica.
Starting from Jorge Luís Borges, we will seek to develop a reflection on the presence of «death» in Western literature and, more specifically, in modern and contemporary Portuguese literature (with special focus on the Modernists and José Saramago). With this reflection, I will try to understand, polyphonically, the «death of Man» and the «death of God» as notions committed, among others, to: the existential and metaphysical uneasiness of finitude; the re-lation with the idea of absolute; the sensation of concretion of an (im)perfect freedom; the demythologization and bankruptcy of the great humanist narratives; the linguistic and literary dispossession of the subject to which, paradoxically, leads a deep awareness that the subject has of itself; the relationship between the individual subject and the collectivity; the neophyte awareness of «cosmic immortality» that stems from the deepest thanatological intuition.
Starting from Jorge Luís Borges, we will seek to develop a reflection on the presence of «death» in Western literature and, more specifically, in modern and contemporary Portuguese literature (with special focus on the Modernists and José Saramago). With this reflection, I will try to understand, polyphonically, the «death of Man» and the «death of God» as notions committed, among others, to: the existential and metaphysical uneasiness of finitude; the re-lation with the idea of absolute; the sensation of concretion of an (im)perfect freedom; the demythologization and bankruptcy of the great humanist narratives; the linguistic and literary dispossession of the subject to which, paradoxically, leads a deep awareness that the subject has of itself; the relationship between the individual subject and the collectivity; the neophyte awareness of «cosmic immortality» that stems from the deepest thanatological intuition.
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Morte Literatura Jorge Luis Borges José Saramago, 1922-2010 Miguel Torga Death Literature Modernism
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Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra