Da universalidade à negação da censura histórica: “História do Cerco de Lisboa”, de José Saramago

Abstract

In order to confirm how the presence of the past and the calling of History can be considered characteristics of contemporary novel, as well as the exploring of the “historical possibilities”, we will focus on some aspects of The History of the Siege of Lisbon related to temporal simultaneity or undefinition, efabulation as history’s rewriting, narrator as a decentred authority, etc.

Keywords

• magical realism
• metafiction
• historiography
• history's rewriting
• josé saramago
• the history of the siege of lisbon