A utilização do elemento grotesco na construção do discurso da obra O conquistador de Almeida Faria

Abstract

The novel in study , The Conqueror by Almeida Faria, presents the search for the individual knowledge of the contemporary Portuguese man. The personage Sebastião, perturbed for singularities that seem to distance him of the others, pretend to organize his way through of the narration of all his life s phases. He begin with his origin relate, to do a relation of the significative loving relationships for the history construction and closed the text with his exile, return at origin place to think about his identity. The identity crisis, experienced for the personage, is based in his constant relation with the historic personage D. Sebastião and in the his necessity of to be different or to accept him how a special or predestinate creature. Respected at the mito sebastianista presaged to king return, Sebastião represents the inside out hero, the double inverse of the historic personage. This image, that symbolize the messianic belief negation, is built through of a ironic and parodystic language. This analysis emphasize how the speech main element the utilization of the grotesque method, that can to be noted in the textual transcription of the iconography epigraphs, in his dreams and in his uncommon sexuality. There are a displacement provoked for this aspects narrative that transfigure the personage in a contradictory creature: representative of the Portuguese aspirations and hopes and concrete symbol of the disillusion and of the failed expectancy of redemption, hard reality of the post-revolutionary moment in Portugal. In this manner, the personage described by Almeida Faria provoke a reflection that confront the past, introduction of the mito sebastianista , and the present, the Portuguese identity front the uncertain contemporary reality.