UM CERCO DE LISBOA ESTETICAMENTE CONSTRUÍDO ENTRE DOIS TEMPOS E DUAS ESTAÇÕES.

Abstract

This paper aims to present a literary analysis of the novel History of the Siege of Lisbon the Portuguese writer José Saramago, published in 1989, describing it as a historiographic metafiction, a term coined by critics Canadian Linda Hutcheon, after differentiating the contemporary productions in relation to traditional historical novel, this proposed by the Hungarian Georg Lukacs. Besides this proposition, will be treated in this work dialogism that permeates this writing, is the intersection between texts in the form of intertextuality, with reference to the criticism of Julia Kristeva, this, as a reader of the Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin; is the intersection between texts in the form of intertextuality, with reference to the criticism of Julia Kristeva, this, as a reader of the Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, dialogue is at interlocutory, in which the reader to follow the aesthetic work, their gazes between two lives time, whose foundation is crossed by the relevant theoretical assumptions to School Constance, Hans Robert Jauss and Wolfgang Iser. Finally, to analyze the thresholds between the historical discourse crossed with literary discourse, the reasons will be based according the postulations of historians of New History, whose likeness is portrayed in the work by the voice of the main character, the reviewer Welcome Raimundo Silva, especially in relation to its critical discourse that sees history as literature, mostly narrative and be built in the form of texts.