Caim (José Saramago) and the parody that (re)values

• Autor(a) principal: Nery, Antonio Augusto
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• 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/fb.v0i12.5137

The parody is one of the many resources used by José Saramago in the development of his fictions, especially those in which there is an interest to resume historical facts or events that have traditionally been read and disseminated from a single perspective, without having been debated or problematized. This also applies to the recovery of forgotten figures, marginalized or implied by a certain group of hegemonic discourses that through the skit speech, emerge reinterpreted and re-signified in the authors’ productions. However, when we think specifically in the recovery of certain characters present in Saramago´s fiction, we can notice that the author has developed the recovery mainly emphasizing the transgressive face parody, not giving a lot of attention to maintain the references. Good examples of this thesis can be seen in the work Cain (2009) that will be analyzed in this work, seeking to investigate specifically the construction of some female characters.