Entre a literatura e a filosofia: o saber alegórico nos espaços de “A caverna”, de José Saramago

Abstract

Based on the reference to the allegory of Plato's cave in the novel “A caverna”, by José Saramago, this work operates between literature and philosophy. It does so by operating an analysis of space in Saramago’s fiction - Center, pottery and intermediate spaces - as an authorial strategy for presenting the confrontation between essence and appearance, present in the entire novel. To discuss the author's position(s), we use the relationship between space, knowledge and power in Foucault, and also resort to Deleuze's philosophy, in his “reversion to Platonism”. Perceiving the articulation of these strategies by the authorial voice, this analysis seeks to perceive Saramago's committed literature project, a fiction that constitutes a space for questioning man’s existencial place in the contemporary world.