O romance português contemporâneo: ideário e trajetória estética de Lídia Jorge

Abstract

In this thesis, I pretend to analyze the literature route from the portuguese writer Lídia Jorge, undertaking a survey from the aspects which compose her esthetic project, considering the literature production’s characteristic from the 20’s, with an expressive actors participation, bringing public the feminine voice which does not content in being the history spectator anymore, but one of its subjects. The mean point is to demonstrate the reached maturity by the author in her writing, aiming to relate these aspects to her path in the contemporaneous portuguese prose. In this respect, I adopted a path which itself, firstly, will show more describable about the particularities from the new portuguese contemporary romance, to, later, convert it in more analytical, with the works presentation from Lídia Jorge, situating her among the contemporary portuguese authors who dedicate to this new model of prose. In this respect, and obeying the works’ ascending chronology, in the first chapter, titrated “THE HISTORIC ROMANCE AND ITS EVOLUTION”, I present the reasoning and the theoretical and critical assumptions about what was conventionalized to be called “the new historic romance”, and, in the specific Lídia Jorge’s case, “the new portuguese contemporary romance”. In the second chapter, “THE FICTIONAL CREATION FROM LÍDIA JORGE” I make an author presentation, situating her importance in the contemporaneous portuguese literature. In the third chapter, “LÍDIA JORGE AND THE DECADES OF HER WRITING” I analyze the romances The Day of the Prodigies and The Murmuring Coast; Limitless Garden and The Painter of Birds; and The Wind Whistling in the Cranes and The Night of the Singing Women, by promoting a dialogue between the works, one of the beginning and the other of the end of each decade, tracing an evaluated panorama of Lídia Jorge’s writing. As if it was testified, Lídia writes, and, when writes, goes leaving behind herself the subtle marks from History, tendency from the portuguese contemporary romance, to the implicit insertion of historical elements related to The Carnation Revolution.