Da Imaginação que Confere Sustentabilidade aos Factos: Finnegans e História do Cerco de Lisboa Revisitados

Abstract

This paper aims to contribute to a comparative reading of Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and Saramago’s História do Cerco de Lisboa, two paradigmatic examples of fictional texts that interrogate the crystallization of history and address the preservation of our collective memory. This analysis adopts, as a theoretical lens, the concept of “cultural sustainability”, as defined by Aleida Assmann in “The future of cultural heritage and its challenges” (Cultural Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2019)