A regeneração da democracia em José Saramago: uma leitura de Ensaio sobre a lucidez como alegoria ao processo de Impeachment de Dilma Rousseff

Abstract

In observing the political crisis that Brazil is currently experiencing, we can see that the electoral vote does not guarantee that democracy is fulfilled in our society. This work has the purpose of reflecting on the attitude of the citizen facing this reality. In order to do this, we read Jose Saramago's Essay on lucidity (2004) with the intention of analyzing the ethical conduct that the author exposes as an ideal model of citizenship. We compared the plot with the impeachment process of former President Dilma Rousseff, because the resemblances between fiction and reality allowed us to reflect critically on the regeneration of democracy from the assimilation of the concept of citizenship. With the purpose of absorbing concepts, it was during the reading we looked at the characteristics of the genre of the essay with which the author titles his work, since this form makes use of allegory, which was the resource that allowed to establish the necessary approaches to have a vision of the political crisis in Brazil from the perspective of a Portuguese author.