The ways of looking in Fernando Namora’s work: resonances between literature, painting and cinema

Abstract

Fernando Namora dedicated approximately fifty years of his life to literary work, producing a significant work with many faces, as he wrote poems, short stories, novels, essays, travel reports, among other works. In addition, the writer painted, made sculptures and wrote movie scripts, demonstrating an attentive look at the various artistic manifestations. By dialoguing with these inclinations, but not limited to transposing the lived experience to the work, it is possible to realize that his writing is sometimes crossed by other arts, allowing the reader to have an interartistic experience when coming across some of his compositions. This multiple view reveals in some of her texts the observer and lover who was, mainly, of painting and cinema. Starting from these encounters between Literature and the other arts and highlighting, mainly, the creation of images through words, this article aims to reflect on some moments of the writer’s production in which the interartistic encounter resounds in his texts, bringing to Literature marks and features other arts.