O problema da representação do real em Todos os nomes de José Saramago

Abstract

This research study intends to analyze José Saramago's novel, All the Names, published in 1997, considering the global philosophical and political context at the time of this publication, considering that this work is part of a phase in which Saramago ceases to emphasize a selected historical history with its literary re(de)constructions and it covers, mainly, a human conjuncture as a whole. In this sense, this study consisted of an analysis of how to identify a language as a major issue for the Portuguese writer in this end-of-the-century phase of his production. We place an analysis in a postmodern perspective, following an uncontrolled discourse and texts that lead us to works that reflect on the language itself, therefore, metafiction will be a very contemplated element. We intend to focus on the claims that Saramago builds to address language issues as an element for the construction of social meaning, and how and why, at certain times as construction in the extraordinary plane. Therefore, seek as influences that Saramago has and admit to impress this character on your work. By contemplating these elements, we intend to declare that, in All the Names, Saramago makes a presage of what might come next in the following century, because it seems that you see the notion of the post-truth, a concept that only enters, in fact, in the center of political and philosophical discussions almost two decades later. In the analysis corpus, authors worth mentioning are: Ana Paula Arnaut, Maria Alzira Seixo, Horácio Costa, Teresa Cristina Cerdeira da Silva, Leyla Perrone-Moisés, Miguel Alberto Koleff, Jacques Derrida, Jean- François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Linda Hutcheon , Fredric Jameson, among others.