A versão portuguesa do mito de Édipo

Abstract

This dissertation concerns to the reading of the dramatic text Antonio Sailor (the Oedipus of Alfama), Bernardo Santareno, taking as a starting point Sophocles ' Oedipus the King. The theoretical foundations used to interpret these texts are the Freudian theory and the teachings of Jacques Lacan. Santareno takes its characters from inside the walls of Thebes, and places them in the second half of the 20th century, to live in a typical scenario where the fado, the wine and the tavern are the elements that describe a typical Portuguese mentality. We chose two films to do a comparative reading with Sophocles plays Oedipus the King and Antonio Sailor (the Oedipus of Alfama), Bernardo Santareno play: Oedipus Rex, by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Fires of Denis Villeneuve. The beginning of Pasolini s film takes place in a small town in Northern Italy and then in the ancient Greece where Sophocles tragedy takes place. Fires is an adaptation of a Lebanese play by Wadji Mouawad and it describes the Lebanon civil war, religious intolerance, rape, incest, and genocide