Reflexões acerca do significado nas obras de ficção de José Saramago

Abstract

With this essay, we intend to study one of the particularities of José Saramago’s style that has escaped those who have been studying his work: reflection on writing itself and, more specifically, on the matter of language, that is, the words he uses and their meanings. The writer often goes on a series of wanderings, in which he reflects on the semantic properties of certain words or expressions, a rare or even non-existent process in other Portuguese writers.

Keywords

• josé saramago
• stratification of meanings
• fiction
• semantic value
• meaning