![]() ![]() I will attempt to show that beyond this literary-historical recording, the object of most studies that have focused on the novel, there is also what I term a “memorial of Blimunda”, as she is the figure that combines all the narrative threads of the novel and, ultimately, the figure through whom the ethical and political message of the text is conveyed. ![]() It is an account that rewrites history from the perspective of the defeated - both men and women -, but also from the perspective of the people in a wider sense, the people seen as a collective with agency, an entity that produces both work and culture, and upon whose history Saramago sheds light. On the one hand, we have the well-known literary-historical account of the construction of the Convent of Mafra, which focuses on those people and circumstances silenced by official history. This paper aims to show that José Saramago’s novel Memorial do Convento (1982), translated into English as Baltasar and Blimunda (BaB), contains various layers of memory. ![]()
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