Os «rostos» da Europa no Diário de Miguel Torga: da falibilidade da história ao declínio do presente

• Autor(a) principal: Gago, Dora Nunes
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34624/rual.v0i1.8967

Aside from being a tireless traveller, Miguel Torga was a citizen who was deeply concerned about his homeland, and about the defining lines of national identity as they were inscribed in the world and, above all, within the borders of Europe. Throughout this essay, we will analyse the different “faces” of Europe, as portrayed by the author in the travel accounts which are registered in his Diário. Firstly, we will take as reference two European countries that he visited and which currently have very distinct positions within the European Community: Greece and Germany. Afterwards, we will focus on the writer’s description of how Portugal joined the European Economic Community and, subsequently, we will approach the idea of the fallibility of History in the abovementioned work.