A utopia da linguagem em A Caverna, de José Saramago

Abstract

This paper intends to discuss the literature as utopian language on the novel “A Caverna”, by José Saramago. We started from concept of utopian as non-place, that is, out of existence and fruit of imagination. In this sense, we can say, perhaps, that every utopian is fictional. The men need of utopians because suffers from lack permanent of space other, - utopic – and try to supply this lack of impossible space on imagine work, that realize in high level in literary praxis. It’s good to remember that create is to give existence to something. Therefore, the utopian is realized in the fictional space, no longer seen as a representation, but as a presence. To discuss the creation act as the founder of a new possibility of existence, the novel suggest the conception of the literary as a utopic project of the language that is not worth the representation of space / object other, but the word itself reveals the dimension of the impossible place.