"Death and the young man": Saramago's "Death at intervals"

• Autores: Maria Aline Ferreira
• Localización: Relational designs in literature and the arts: page and stage, canvas and screen / Rui Carvalho Homem (ed. lit.), 2012, ISBN 978-90-420-3581-2, págs. 371-385
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This essay examines the artistic trope of death depicted as a woman, privileging Jose Saramago's book 'As Intermitências da Morte' (2005, 'Dealh at Intervals') as an explanatory concept. In Saramago's novel there is a reversal of the 'Death and the Maiden' theme in art, which in 'Death of Intervals' becomes 'Death and the Young Man'. This trope will be investigated in terms of its complex intertextual and intermedial intersections, which constitute a body of literary and visual motifs with important ramifications in other areas, such as philosophy and psychoanalysis.