Library of Rassegna iberistica

Series | Library of Rassegna iberistica
Edited book | Serenísima palabra
Chapter | La huella del Quijote en poetas de lengua portuguesa del siglo XX: Miguel Torga y José Saramago

La huella del Quijote en poetas de lengua portuguesa del siglo XX: Miguel Torga y José Saramago

Abstract

Miguel Torga and José Saramago are two of the most important Portuguese writers of the past century, and both wrote poems inspired by Don Quijote, the world-renowned masterpiece of Miguel de Cervantes. I propose to analyze these poems for their similarites and dissimilarities so as to understand the reception of Cervantes’s novel by these two poets. Some of the concepts of ‘Reception’ and ‘Reader-response’ theories presented by Hans R. Jauss and Wolfgang Iser will be used to explain how the poets assimilated the novel and changed Cervantes’s characters in order to adapt them to their own 20th century reality. Torga transformed Sancho Panza into a peasant hero able to move a crowd against the dictators that dominated Portugal and Spain. For his part, Saramago analyzed Cervantes’s characters in his poems, despised Dulcinea because of her absence, considered don Quijote a paranoid man and valued Sancho for his abilities and strength.  


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: July 13, 2015 | Accepted: June 15, 2016 | Language: it

Keywords José Saramago • Miguel Torga • Miguel de Cervantes • Reception theory • Quijote • Twentieth century • Portuguese poetry • Iberism

Copyright © 2017 Cristina Miranda Menezes. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.14277/6969-163-8/RiB-5-93


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