The miracle of the language: a reading of the Personal Miracle, by José Eduardo Agualusa

Authors

  • Carlos Batista Bach Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/boitata.2012v7.e31239

Keywords:

Orality, Agualusa, Personal Miracle, Angolan literature

Abstract

The purpose of this brief essay is to understand how the author José Eduardo Agualusa, in his novel Milagrário Personal, discusses the Portuguese language and its plots. To address this theme, Agualusa builds a narrative that transforms itself into a journey through paths that denote the union between orality and writing.

 

Author Biography

Carlos Batista Bach, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

PhD student in Literature - Brazilian, Portuguese and Portuguese-African Literatures - UFRGS

References

AGUALUSA, José Eduardo. Milagrário Pessoal. Rio de Janeiro: Língua Geral, 2010.

CERTEAU, Michel de. A invenção do cotidiano. Petrópolis, RJ: Vozes, 2008.

MACÊDO, Tania, CHAVES, Rita. Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa: marcos e marcas. SãoPaulo: Arte e Ciência, 2007.

ONG, Walther. Oralidade e cultura escrita. Campinas: Papirus, 1998.

PADILHA, Laura Cavalcante. Novos pactos, outras ficções: ensaios sobre literaturas afro-luso-brasileiras. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, 2002.

ZUMTHOR, Paul. Performance, recepção, leitura. 2.ed. São Paulo: Cosac Naify, 2007.

Published

2012-06-10

How to Cite

Bach, C. B. (2012). The miracle of the language: a reading of the Personal Miracle, by José Eduardo Agualusa. Boitatá, 7(13), 92–101. https://doi.org/10.5433/boitata.2012v7.e31239

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