Casas destruídas : a revisitação de Casa na Duna em Finisterra de Carlos de Oliveira

Abstract

In the 'Nota Final' with which 'Finisterra' (1978) doses, Carlos de Oliveira suggests that this narrative constitutes a revisitation of his first novel 'Casa na Duna' (1943), from which he retrieves the theme of the 'destroyed house'. However, 'Casa na Duna' was already, in its third edition in 1964, the object of an intense re-working. How is thus the justification given by the author to be understood, i.e. the persistence of a necessity to deepen certain 'personal and social obsessions'? An answer to this question will be attempted by taking into account the characteristics of the evolution of Carlos de Oliveira's work.