Sentidos alegóricos em José Saramago: a caverna e a aventura da modernidade

Abstract

The theoretical analysis and presentation developed here seek to analyze some consequences of what Marshall Berman called modernity adventure." Considering the impossibility in limit this object of study, it was necessary to search for their understanding through a cultural artifact not rigidly attached in terms of space and time. Thus, is in the literary text, specifically in the novel A Caverna, by José Saramago, we may found the way to reach our objective. The allegorical form perceived there, whose nature allows a reading of issues inherent in many modern temporalities , contributes to denote the condition of this narrative as a discursive construction directly connected to reality .Through the scenarios description and the main characters configuration , we can identify the presence of material elements that can be read as true ruins of a time marked by constant changes in the material and symbolic conditions of existence . Among the main categories illustrative of the modern impulse, understood as the search for order, was approached more closely the ways in which the world, human habitat and subjects are represented in the plot of Saramago s text.