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In 2014, the doctoral thesis entitled Historical Fabulation in Contemporary Literary Texts focused on the various aspects of the interchangeable relationship between history and literature in contemporary metafictional production. From a sociological perspective, possible themes, forms and styles of literary texts were related to the history of the country from which these texts originate. The chosen literary examples (Fernando Pessoa, António Lobo Antunes, José Cardoso Pires and José Saramago) problematize and rehearse a writing of history outside the traditional axes of cause and effect and the reproduction of classical literary realism. Their narrative tessitura, after all, presents itself in a kaleidoscopic way by working on the identity and ideological stratification of their writers precisely in a disparate way. However, this does not mean that a literature whose thematic approach to history can dispense with the real because of its crisis of representation, since the emergence of narrative possibilities offers new aspects of this reality that, linked to history without being guided by it, reverberate precisely this excess as the focal point of its written production.
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Profesor, periodista y corrector de pruebas, Bernardo Elizeu de Queiroz Monteiro es doctor en literatura, cultura y estudios contemporáneos por la PUC-Rio (un curso de sándwich en la Universidad de Coimbra, Portugal). Su formación también incluye una Maestría en Literatura/Estudios (PUC-Rio) y una licenciatura en Periodismo (FACHA).
