José Saramago / About the Work

Theses and Monographs

The cave

Construction and Deconstruction of Identities in The Cave by José Saramago and Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee

2008

Center and Literary Margins: Allegory and Myth in "The Cave", by José Saramago

2005

Cave-World Modern Parody in José Saramago

2003

From the potter, in A cave, to the realities of Brazilian artistic ceramics

2010

Allegory and myth in “The Cave” by José Saramago

2005

Wandering through Saramago's Cave (s)

2007
The Stone Raft

Readings on the Portuguese Homeland. The Stone Raft

1992

«"The Stone Raft": A Journey Through Iberian Peninsula Culture and History

1999

«The Stone Raft»: l'epica utopica della nuova ibericitá

No date

Iberism and Europe in "A Jangada de Pedra" by José Saramago

1998

The Fantastic Mode and “The Stone Raft”

1998
The intermittences of death

Eros and Thanatos – A reading of José Saramago's The Intermittencies of Death

2009

«"The Intermittencies of Death" by José Saramago: an allegorical essay on finitude.

2014
Several

Duet of Disquiet: The Crisis of the Contemporary Subject in the Novels of José Saramago and Chico Buarque

2024

The Character in José Saramago: Poetics and Myth

1994

Reading (With) Saramago

1992

Pedagogical Elucidation, History and Identity in the Novels of José Saramago

2001

Il Religious Discord in Romanzo Saramaghiano

1991-1992

The Construction of National Memory in José Saramago and Gore Vidal

2002

Cultural Historiography in the Novels of José Saramago

1999

Metaphorical Excerpts and Allegorical Possibilities in "Memorial do Convento": Some Considerations

2002

It's all probably fiction.

1993

A Study of Proverb Recurrence: From "Raised from the Ground" to "All the Names"“

2000

The Contemporary Portuguese Novel: A Literature of Self-Knowledge

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José Saramago – Between History and Fiction: A Saga of the Portuguese

1987

The writing and the power: the latest truth of the text of José Saramago

1994

Saramago's Conception of Language: The Confrontation Between the Said and the Written

1997

Women in the Gerund Tense

1988

Teaching the Portuguese Language through Saramago: Punctuation, Direct Speech

2004

The Reverse Weaving

2001

The Author's Role as the First Reader of His/Her Work. The Author: The Tutor and the Lover.

1992

I guard Rovesciato the Narrative Universe of José Saramago

2003-2004

Erzählstandpunkte in den Romanen von José Saramago (im Vergleich mit anderen Portuguiesischen Romanen der Gegenwart)

1989

Time and Voice: The Tragic-Ideological Journey in José Saramago's Narrative

1996

L'art d'écrire la critique: aspects of the romanesque oeuvre by José Saramago

2004

L'Onomastica accordingo Saramago

2003-2004

Story and Invention in the Narrative of José Saramago

1988-1989

The Importance of the Historical Novel in Portuguese Romanticism and Post-Modernism

1992

Saramago et Sollers: une (Re)écriture Ironique?

1996

La Visione Utopica della Societá Umana in José Saramago

1992-1993

Historicity in the Fiction of José Saramago ("Raised from the Ground", "Memorial do Convento", "The History of the Siege of Lisbon")

2001

Réalité et ficcion dans l'univers romanesque de José Saramago: étude des œuvres «Levantado do Chão» et «The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis» Volumes I and II

2007

Architectural thought in the work of José Saramago

1998

La Fascination du Christianisme dans le Roman Portugais Moderne et Contemporain

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Writers Revisit Writers (José Saramago's Reading of Fernando Pessoa and Ricardo Reis, and Silviano Santiago's Reading of Graciliano Ramos and Cláudio Manuel da Costa)

2000

The Labyrinth Metaphor in the Novels of José Saramago

2005

Fictions of Nationhood and the Contemporary Novel Written in Portuguese: José Saramago, José Luandino Vieira, and João Ubaldo Ribeiro

1992

José Saramago: The Formative Period

1994

The Post-Modernist Socio-Code in the Contemporary Portuguese Novel: Ariadne's Threads - Proteus' Masks

2001

The Passion according to José Saramago, the Passion of the Word and the Word of Passion

1993

French translation of the novels of José Saramago. The case of the novels Blindness (1995), All the Names (1997) and The Cave (2000).

2010

José Saramago's "Essays": An Exercise by the Author

2005

When History Rules the Show

1987

From the blind to the lucid: the literature of ideas by José Saramago

2004/|8

From Blindness to Clarity: An Ideological and Literary Journey

2006

José Saramago, in pursuit of Lucidity

2006

Reading History in the Novels of José Saramago

2003

Indeed, fiction: an examination of the interactions between History and Literature in novels by José Saramago and Almeida Faria.

1997

Événement et Dynamique – Événementiale with José Saramago and Daniele del Giudice

2012

The human habitation of architectural spaces since the work of José Saramago

2012

Travels from my homeland: an encounter between Garrett and Saramago

2006

Luigi Pirandello and José Saramago. Due script, a wealth

2014

“It’s all there”: the literary construct in José Saramago’s chronicles

2014

Virality in Saramago and Ionesco

2014

“"The will to truth in José Saramago"”

2015

José Saramago: narrator, author, ethical, aesthetic and ideological assumptions

2012

Crossed Perspectives: The Problem of Reading in José Saramago and Philippe Sollers

2004

The “Display” of Death in the fiction of José Saramago

2015

The Character in Saramago: Poetics and Myth

1994

A feminist perspective on José Saramago — a reading of The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and Memorial do Convento

2005

The Construction of National Memory in José Saramago and Gore Vidal

2002

Erzählstandpunkte in the novel by José Saramago

1989

Cultural Historiography in the Novels of José Saramago

1999

Teaching the Portuguese language through Saramago: punctuation, direct speech

2004

Pedagogical elucidation, history and identity in the novels of José Saramago

2001

A study of the proverbial recurrence of "Raised from the Ground" in "All the Names" by José Saramago

2000

Between history and fiction: a saga of the Portuguese.

1987

“"Saramago: Writing, Interrupting. Short narratives by José Saramago: problems of a discursive space"”

2016

The space of memory in José Saramago: Literature and Autobiography

2017

Translation as a way of intercultural communication analysis of travel journalism in Ronda Iberia magazine

2003

Writing as a reinterpretation of lived experience in "Manual of Painting and Calligraphy" and "Lanzarote Notebooks" by José Saramago

2020

The essay in Saramago's novel: the human experience under the scrutiny of words.

2017
Blindness essay

From Blindness to Clarity: An Ideological and Literary Journey

2006

"Blindness" in the Construction of an Anti-Oedipus

1998

Rehearsing Blindness, Seeing Another World: Capitalist Segregations in the Subtext of Saramago's Novel

2004

Trends in contemporary theater across Italy and Portogallo in a scene in «Cecitá» by José Saramago

2004

The Allegorical Process in José Saramago's "Blindness": From White Night to Black Light

2000

The intertextual universe in José Saramago's *Blindness*

2000
History of the Siege of Lisbon

History and Fiction: A Dialogue

1992

On the Polyphonic Status of the Narrator in José Saramago's The History of the Siege of Lisbon

1993

The History of the Siege of Lisbon: A Siege of Discourses (regarding the work "The History of the Siege of Lisbon" by José Saramago)

1995

Fiction Is the End of the Siege – A Reading of "The History of the Siege of Lisbon" by José Saramago

1994

Love is the end of the siege: eroticism in "The History of the Siege of Lisbon" by José Saramago

1993

A siege of Lisbon aesthetically constructed between two times and two seasons.

2013

The editor's baton: Pessoa's echoes in The History of the Siege of Lisbon

2012

History of the Siege of Lisbon: a siege of speeches

1993
Raised from the Ground

When History Rules the Show

1987

“Raised from the Ground”: A Romance of Faith

1991

History and Power: A Reading of «Levantado do Chão»

2007

THE EU AND THE TRIBE: A Reading of Subjectivity in the novel “Levantado do Chão” by José Saramago

2004

A Past «Lifted from the Ground»: Another-Time for History

2003
Manual of Painting and Calligraphy

Before a “Painting and Calligraphy Manual”: A Modernist Poetics by Almada Negreiros

2008
Memorial of the Convent

Alejo Carpentier and José Saramago: history and fiction in «Loss pasos perdos» and «Memorial do Convento»

1999

“"Memorial do Convento," or the Transgression of Memory

1996-1997

José Saramago et the question of the history of “Memorial do Convento”

no date

The Narrator and the Hero in the Historical-Ideological (Re)creation of "Memorial do Convento"“

1994

Contributions to the Study of "Memorial do Convento" by José Saramago in Secondary Education

2006

Memorial do Convento: History, Fiction, and Ideology

no date

The Praise of the Baroque in Memorial do Convento

2009

The portrayal of characters in "Memorial do Convento": a possible interpretation.

2014

Memorial do Convento: A textual construction of myth and history

1990

Carnival at the Convent

1988

Fiction and history in "Memorial do Convento" – boundaries between different narratives in Saramago's work.

1994
The year of Ricardo Reis' death.

The author's marks in "The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis" by José Saramago

2015

Ricardo Reis and History: Death, Life or Resurrection?

1999

Visiting Saramago: The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - A Reading

2001

Fiction and History: José Saramago, "The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis" and Jorge de Sena, "Signs of Fire"“

2004

«The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis»: an experience on poetic writing

2000

Forms of Parody in "The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis" by José Saramago

1999

History, Memory, Fiction: A Comparative Study of "Memoirs of Prison" and "The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis"«

1998

«L'Année de la mort de Ricardo Reis» by José Saramago

no date

The Inverted Abyss. The Unease of the Novel in "The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis" by José Saramago

2003

The Voice of the People in José Saramago's "The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis": Integration and Discursive Reformulation

2000

The aesthetics of quoting José Saramago in "The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis"“

2007

Read (with) José Saramago

1992

History commands the spectacle of the world: Fiction, history and intertextuality in "The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis" by José Saramago

2001
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

Una Vita di Gesù. Il Vangelo Secondo Gesù di José Saramago

2000-2001

Religious Discourse in The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago

1998

From Myth to Romance

1999

An Attack on the Historical Truths and Problems of Postmodernism

2001

The Life of Jesus as Told by an Atheist Evangelist

2003

Conflicts of Interpretation in the Face of José Saramago’s Novel “The Gospel According to Jesus Christ”

1994

The Devil and God in “The Gospel According to Jesus Christ” by José Saramago

1997

Subverting Christian Iconography in the design of book covers for José Saramago's novel “The gospel according to Jesus Christ”

2014

“The Gospel According to Jesus Christ” — An Attack on the Historical Truths and Problems of Postmodernism

2001

Religious discourse in “The Gospel According to Jesus Christ” by José Saramago

1998

The life of Jesus Christ as told by an atheist evangelist.

2003
The duplicate man

Contributions to the Study of the Theme of the Double in José Saramago

2006
Almost an object

The Fictional Narrative of Objects (A Reading of "Almost an Object" by José Saramago)

1998
all names

The Strange Case of Mr. José – A Question of Identity in All Names, by José Saramago

2012
Travel to Portugal

On the road with José, at sea with Manoel

2011

From sea to land: "Journey to Portugal" by José Saramago, and the return of travel literature.

2015

José Saramago: from the journey to the traveler

2013