Visita guiada ao impossível corpo de Cecília. Ensaio a partir de A Cidade de Ulisses, romance de Teolinda Gersão

Ana Luísa Vilela

doi:10.23925/1983-4373.2021i26p5-15

Authors

Ana Luísa Vilela Universdade de Évora

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/1983-4373.2021i26p5-15

Keywords:

Contemporary portuguese novel, Teolinda Gersão, Female character, Body, Eroticism.

Abstract

In the present work, I intend to revisit the novel A Cidade de Ulisses, by Teolinda Gersão (2012), looking at its structuring organicity and erotic content. Starting from excerpts selected by the author herself, I rely on critics, theorists and literary authors such as George Steiner, David Hillman and Ulrike Maude or David Mourão-Ferreira. I develop here, through a very unconventional discursive strategy, a fictional dialogue with the autodiegetic narrator. I seek to highlight, discuss and problematize aspects combined in the work, such as the Homeric affiliation of the character and his city, the erotic spatialization, the role of art or the libidinal genesis of the creative process. In this fictional universe, I believe, such elements are globally subsumed by the artistic reconstitution of a female body turned into a myth, to which this essay can virtually give a voice.

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Author Biography

Ana Luísa Vilela, Universdade de Évora

Professora doutora. Universidade de Évora – UÉ; Escola de Ciências Sociais; Departamento de Linguística e Literaturas – Évora – Portugal

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