A iconoclastia de José Saramago em Que Farei com Este Livro?

Abstract

This dissertation studies political thought and the biographical aspects of José Saramago's life as elements of analysis of his writing. In this work we used the dramatic text That I will do with this book?, as the main object of research to investigate the hypothesis of the author Portuguese insert in his works reflections and political criticisms, dialoguing the past and the present, creating a parallel between fiction and history. Through this process of rewriting historiography being possible to observe the iconoclasm existing in the dramatic text, when the writer uses two historical personalities, who were miteified by Portuguese society, Dom Sebastião and Luís Vaz de Camões, removes them from the place of national heroes and places them as humanized characters, desacralizing contestan nationalism exacerbated and reinforced by a dictatorial government that also serves as the basis for Saramaguyan writing, seeking to provoke reflections on the history of the country and on the roles of historical "winners" and socially "vanquished".