Party literature and normative writing: the work of Manuel Tiago/Álvaro Cunhal

Abstract

Every communist thesis’ novel, as well as every ideological conflict, divides human kind in good and bad ones, what originates a binary axiology: this can be found in the work of Manuel Tiago whose writing is explanatory and normative. The author often turns to a deontic modality, what characterizes the normative, as well as the evaluative commentaries and, consequently the epistemic modality. His first novel, Até Amanhã, Camaradas, written during the Salazar dictatorship, served as a manual for the PCP members, who should transform themselves in “professional revolutionaries”, fighting undercovered.

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Original in French.