ESPAÇO E IDENTIDADE: a percepção da paisagem na produção literária de José Saramago

Abstract

This thesis aims to study the primordial identities of the characters from the configurations of space and perception of the landscape in the story titled The Tale of the unknown island (1998) and the novel Blindness (1995), by José Saramago. This analysis promotes a dialogue between Literature, Cultural Studies and Cultural Geography Humanist. To this end, the research points to the need to reflect on the concepts of identity, space, place and landscape, from the contributions of cultural studies and geography Cultural Humanist, respectively, which allows to analyze how the constitution of identities takes place in geographical space, according to the experience and perception of the characters, and understand the representations of the landscape by the author and his relationship with the dilemmas in contemporary man. It is in this light it is intended to situate the work of José Saramago, Portuguese writer who seeks consistency with the reality of his country and of the contemporary world, which depicts a man in search of finding a world that often does not allow the meeting can not even same.