Eat the past like famine bread: relationships between food and literature

Abstract

The thematization of the food, besides establish itself as a strong and pow­erful investigative field, able to integrate and relate to critical reflections regarding the memory, the space, the experience, the body and the rela­tionships between tradition and modernity, allows to open new lines of study in relation to the presentation of hunger and abundance in different cultural, historical and literary moments. It is intended to compare, in this work, literary texts that develop, in a polarized fashion, hunger and abun­dance (or the banquet, the feast, the junketing). The works of Fernando Pessoa, Manuel de Freitas and Carlos de Oliveira will be read through the philosophical thinking of Walter Benjamin, author who reflectively wrote about the food and its relation to subjectivity and memory.