A escrita rizomática: para uma leitura de O esplendor de Portugal, de António Lobo Antunes

Abstract

António Lobo Antunes’s fiction has been widely studied in Brazilian and Portuguese’s academia through the years. His novelistic writing’s many peculiarities: proliferation of memorialistic patterns, diversification of voices and narrative perspectives, interweaving of space-temporal levels, fragmentation of subjects, joined to historical and existential themes, are some of the elements that most drum the researchers attention up. In this context, this study analyzes O esplendor de Portugal’s narrative based in the rhizome concept developed by Deleuze and Guattari, so proposing a new possible reading to Antunian’s fiction. The study’s development falls back on historical, political and social issues’ surveying, involved with the narrative and with the analysis of Antunian’s narrative technic, starting from the study of narrative categories: time, space, character, narrator, plot. This process allows plainly observing of the many intermediations into the text, unraveling its rhizomatic composition. Furthermore, it enables verifying how this text does rhizome with the world.