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Saramago's labyrinths

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Saramago’s labyrinths focuses on both the form and the content of Saramago’s writing, paying particular attention to Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (Blindness) and Todos os Nomes (All the Names).
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Saramago’s labyrinths is the first book-length study to focus on the relationship between form and the content in Saramago’s writing, paying particular attention to Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (Blindness) and Todos os Nomes (All the Names). Atkin provides a close textual analysis of Blindness and All the Names, and suggests that the labyrinth pervades Saramago’s work, both in the form of the text, and as a literary and philosophical trope. She makes clear connections between these novels and Saramago’s other literary works, and identifies ways in which Saramago causes the reader to return to and consider the philosophical, epistemological and ethical concerns and dilemmas that are recurrent in his literary output. Atkin’s jargon-free approach to Saramago’s complex ideas, and her thorough understanding of Portuguese history, culture and society, make this an accessible yet challenging guide to Saramago’s fiction, for undergraduate and postgraduate students and scholars with or without prior knowledge of the Portuguese context.
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Price: £85.00
Pages: 176
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Series: Durham Modern Languages Series
Publication Date: 30 June 2012
ISBN: 9780719086304
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:

LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

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Rhian Atkin teaches Portuguese Studies at the University of Liverpool and is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester.

Rhian Atkin teaches Portuguese Studies at the University of Liverpool and is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester

Preface by Paulo de Medeiros

Introduction: Into the Labyrinth

1. Beware the Minotaur: labyrinth imagery

2. A maze of words

3. A maze of works

Conclusion: Rhizome or the way home?

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