Open AccessSabine, Mark. José Saramago: History, Utopia, and the Necessity of Error. Legenda, 2016
Author(s) -
Ana Paula Ferreira
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of lusophone studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 2469-4800
DOI - 10.21471/jls.v4i2.349
Subject(s) - utopia , subaltern , authoritarianism , humanities , art history , art , globalization , face (sociological concept) , dystopia , liberalism , sociology , aesthetics , literature , political science , democracy , social science , politics , law
Beyond reasserting the author’s continuing commitment to a revolutionary socialist worldview, Sabine demonstrates through the detailed analysis of each of the five Saramago novels in question—Levantado do chão; Memorial do convento; O ano da morte de Ricardo Reis; A jangada de pedra; and História do cerco de Lisboa—the revisions that such a commitment entails in the face of the increasingly equivocal (and enabling) authoritarian forces of neo-liberalism and globalization that exclude subaltern voices.