PARA ALÉM DA CEGUEIRA E DA LOUCURA: APROXIMAÇÕES ENTRE JAIME ROCHA E JOSÉ SARAMAGO

Abstract

This dissertation aims to reveal points of parallelism between Jaime Rocha 's Essay on Blindness (1995) by José Saramago and The White Madness, (1990), articulating the narratives with the empirical reality. In this sense, it is intended to articulate the narratives with sociological and symbolic questions of the empirical reality, for that, will take as a theoretical perspective the question of the relation of control and power over the society and the individual. Thus, through this perspective we will try to explain how the characters of the novels are lost in a blindness and white madness, which makes them impossible to follow in the normality of daily life and make them move to an atypical state of experience, in which it is possible Perceive to a greater degree the sordidness of reality. With this, it is expected that this study will allow a deeper understanding of the works of Saramago and Rocha, as well as contributing significantly to Literary Studies.