Os estados de alma, as relações de poder e a construção da subjetividade em O homem duplicado, de José Saramago.

Abstract

This project aims to carry out research on the constitution of the identity of the contemporary subject based on the novel O Homem Duplicado (2002) by Portuguese writer José Saramago. We believe that this narrative constitutes one of the main texts in Saramago's vast literary production. To carry out the task to which we submit ourselves, we intend to use the devices of Greimasian Semiotics in order to verify how interpersonal relationships influence changes in the characters' states of mind, making them - based on these passionate changes - able to act in the world in search of certain value objects. Therefore, our premise is based on the perspective that changes in states of mind lead subjects to constitute their identities or even give new meaning to them, with these transformations occurring in the narrative within what Greimas calls the generative path of meaning, or semiotic path.