A morte: um estudo da personagem romanesca de José Saramago em As Intermitências da morte

Abstract

This work presents a study of the character “death” from the work “Death with Interruptions” (2005), by José Saramago. The study, based on understanding its anthropomorphization in the narrative, seeks its bases in bibliographies on novel characters and issues relating to anthropology and thanatology. Here it is understood that the social aspects of the representation of death are part of the construction of the character Saramaguian and that is why we seek to rely on authors who made it possible to demonstrate such an analysis and how its anthropomorphization leads the reader to re-elaborate their understanding of the topic.Some of the results obtained concern the rupture of the representation of death that the author creates and how the musician, by becoming someone important to her, makes her susceptible to loss. In addition to Saramago, other authors made this exploration possible. The main authors used as a theoretical basis for the topics covered are: Philippe Ariès; Edgar Morin; Antonio Candido and Edward Morgan Forster.