Symbolic figurations and ideological discourse in Barranco de cegos, by Alves Redol

Abstract

This paper undertakes to analyze Barranco de cegos, by Alves Redol, in order to affirm the importance of this literary work in the Portuguese literary Neorealism. It is intended to demonstrate the current approach of some of his principal axiological senses. It is a problematization of symbolic figurations and the ideological discourse constituted by certain narrative strategies put into action in the novel. It is considered the network between History with literary fiction, as well the relations between ideology and utopia, phenomenon constituded of social imaginary, according to thought of Paul Ricoeur.