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The International Conference “José Saramago: 20 Years with the Nobel Prize” was a unique opportunity to reflect upon and debate the work of a great writer. During a period of three days, the conference provided the forum to reassess the author’s writing and propose new areas of investigation on many aspects of the writer’s vast and multifaceted work: his novels and the main themes that are represented in them; the characters and their modes of existence; his poetry, theater and chronicle writing; and the adaptations in fiction and other art forms, were the object of study of close to five dozen presentations, by scholars from a variety of countries, predominantly from Portugal and Brazil.

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characters --- chronicle writing --- theater --- José Saramago --- adaptation --- allegory --- critical wealth --- novels --- journalism

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Encontram-se reunidos neste livro ensaios diretamente relacionados com o projeto de investigação “Figuras da Ficção” (Centro de Literatura Portuguesa da Faculdade de Letras de Coimbra), com extensão ao blogue homónimo (www.figurasdaficcao.wordpress.com). Centrando-se na personagem, nos seus modos de existência ficcional e paraficcional, nas suas figurações e nos seus avatares, os ensaios que aqui se encontram tratam de revalorizar uma categoria narrativa que durante décadas foi relegada para as margens dos estudos literários.

Nos últimos vinte anos, os estudos narrativos, tendo colhido muitas das conquistas conceptuais e metodológicas da narratologia dos anos 80 do século passado, redescobriram na personagem um apreciável potencial de investimento semântico, de dinamismo transficcional e de articulação intercultural. É isso que está confirmado nos estudos em que aqui são tratados temas e subtemas como a figuração da personagem realista, a refiguração de personalidades históricas, a questão do insólito ou a representação paraficcional de figuras do chamado universo mediático.

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Characters and characteristics in literature. --- Portuguese literature --- History and criticism. --- Character sketches --- Characterization (Literature) --- Literary characters --- Literary portraits --- Portraits, Literary --- History and criticism