Intertextualidade e verossimilhança: história e tradição em Vícios e virtudes de Helder Macedo

Abstract

The present paper has the intention of making an appreciation of the Portuguese romance Vicios e Virtudes by Helder Macedo, from a process reading of intertextuality and trustworthiness. As theoretical material the conceptions by Julia Kristeva about the bakhitinian dialogism model were used. The analysis is done taking into account the relations established by the romance with elements from the History of Portugal and with the Lusitanian literary and cultural tradition itself. Due to these relations, notes of the effects of the trustworthiness that are found in the narrative technique levels, the actions and the characters are proposed. Besides that, it is aimed at elaborating the themes and reference functions, here classified as motives, in the articulation of the different levels in which the narrated stories work.