O período de Garrett na Bélgica (1834-1836) em Memorias Biographicas (de Gomes de Amorim, 1881-1884) e em A Lua de Bruxelas (de Amadeu Lopes Sabino, 2000)

Abstract

The purpose of this dissertation is to analyse the period in which Garrett was in Brussels (1834-1836) as in Charge of Foreign Affairs and General Consul of Portugal. For this, will be taken based on the books Garrett Memorias Biographicas (1881-1884) of Francisco Gomes de Amorim and A Lua de Bruxelas (2000) of Amadeu Lopes Sabino. These works show the financial difficulties of Garrett, due to the contempt of the portuguese government. The biography is marked by the Amorim s moulded discourse, because of the strong friendship that he had with Garrett, his father literary. Sabino presents a novel centered at this space of time, combining historical narrative, biographical facts and fiction. Thus, in this work, the discourses are compared, explaining the specific tone of each other: both have the intellectual s relations with the country and the society, in a time of great changes. However, Amorim polish things and make silence about some events, mainly related to the marriage of Garrett. Sabino support this relationship with Garrett s wife (Luísa Midosi) as a content of this documented novel, basing it exactly from what Amorim leaves a riddle