PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Carlos Nogueira
TI  - José Saramago na literatura de cordel brasileira
AID  - 10.3368/lbr.58.2.34
DP  - 2022 Mar 28
TA  - Luso-Brazilian Review
PG  - 34--53
VI  - 58
IP  - 2
4099  - http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/58/2/34.short
4100  - http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/58/2/34.full
SO  - Luso-Braz Rev2022 Mar 28; 58
AB  - In this article, I aim to understand the cordel leaflet titled José Saramago: vida e morte (n.d.) by the Brazilian writer Medeiros Braga as literature and as political action. Based on Medeiros Braga’s ideas about the Portuguese writer, I propose an interpretation of socialism by both Saramago and the Brazilian author. I argue in favor of what Saramago said about himself: he did not see himself as a writer who was a communist, but as a communist who was a writer. At the same time, I show that the formula “writer who was a communist” fits Medeiros Braga.