Camões, the poet of the overseas imaginary

Abstract

In this article, we will point out, with Os Lusíadas (1572), how the Camonian epic represents the subjectivities coming from the overseas discoveries context, integrating them into a significantly problematic whole. It is from this perspective that we will focus on his famous work, in order to apprehend one of the lessons that the poet intended to record: the desire so common in his time to go to the Indies to enrich or even to inquire and see everything, a discovery that, according to Camões, does not come without struggle, pain and anguish. For this interpretation, we begin with the reading of Felizi studies, specifically when is exanimate how the poet uses the word discovery not only in its historical sense, but also in a more philosophical sense between truth and deception.