Open AccessSalamon Dembitzer – um refugiado no Porto
Author(s) -
Maria Antónia Gaspar Teixeira
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
cadernos de literatura comparada
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2183-2242
pISSN - 1645-1112
DOI - 10.21747/21832242/litcomp45a2
Subject(s) - narrative , perspective (graphical) , task (project management) , portuguese , reflexivity , reflexive pronoun , sociology , aesthetics , literature , history , philosophy , linguistics , art , visual arts , engineering , social science , systems engineering
The main goal of this article is to disseminate a work which has almost been forgotten: Visum nach Amerika, by Salamon Dembitzer. A self-fictional narrative guided by a very critical, ironically disillusionistic perspective, interweaving the protagonist's experiences with various reflexive comments, it dismantles – sometimes sarcastically – everything and everyone: the consulates, the Portuguese, the refugees. Nevertheless, going beyond the mere «account of facts» - a definition used by the author himself –, Visum nach Amerika is also a work about the task of literature and the writers.