TRAVELING THROUGH TIME AND SPACE: SARAMAGO, CERVANTES AND THE CHIVALRIC TRADITION

Authors

  • Christina I. McCoy

Keywords:

Don Quijote, A Jangada de Pedra, Cosmopolitanism, Comparative Literature, Iberian identity

Abstract

This article traces José Saramago’s mobilization of the Cervantes’ Don Quijote (1605) in A Jangada de Pedra (1986), an act that, at first glance, seems to invoke a shared Iberian literary heritage. I argue, however, that in fact Saramago problematizes any notion of being that is necessarily connected to territory. I trace Saramago’s mobilization of Spanish literary patrimony, arguing that Saramago effectively dissolves all sense of borders, homeland and nation, eschews modernity and positions his novel in a European context, not simply a Portuguese or Iberian one. Through the lens of cosmopolitanism, I argue that Saramago questions ideas of home, of truth, and of knowledge, rewriting the medieval chivalric in the form of a modern-day travel narrative.

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McCoy, C. I. (2014). TRAVELING THROUGH TIME AND SPACE: SARAMAGO, CERVANTES AND THE CHIVALRIC TRADITION. 452ºF. Revista De Teoría De La Literatura Y Literatura Comparada, (11), 64–79. Retrieved from https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/452f/article/view/10639

Issue

No. 11 (2014): Comparative Iberian Literatures

Section

Monograph

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