From the barroque musicality in “The inquisitors' manual”

Abstract

The intention of this work is to consider a reflection between elements of a baroque’s musicality and her application in a contemporary literally text; that is the novel O manual dos inquisidores here, written by António Lobo Antunes, a Portuguese author, published in 1998. I will explain some artistic procedures presents in the book, like the repetition of words and phrases, the organization of the text and the presence of the polyphony, as a important characteristics of a inherited cultural legacy of the baroque one. I understand the baroque not as a cultural movement stuck in a historic period, but like a feeling that can happen in another time, also in the contemporary period.