It can such a literature?

Abstract

The novel by Frederico Lourenço, Pode um desejo imenso (2005), offers an opportunity to return to Camões, this time, through a fictionalized reading. The present article tries to analyze this fictionalization – the one realized by the novel – approaching the text of the novel by the bias of Psychoanalysis. The movement privileges the intertextual outline of the “reading” that the narrator of the novel offers the reader. Based on this assumption, the article develops seeking to point out how the fictional reading, which the text of the novel presents, leaves open the possibility of re-reading of Camões himself. The fictional arguments used by the narrator of the novel are the key to the return to Camões, this time, unusual for the proposed intertextual articulation. The field of Comparative Literature is the critical and theoretical perimeter by which the article proposal develops itself. Psychoanalysis, as mentioned, plays its instrumental role, sustaining some of the hypotheses presented by the article.