Lúcio Cardoso: o laboratório da escrita literária - de Maleita À luz no subsolo

Abstract

This work aimed to draw Lúcio Cardoso’s writing profile from the publications of Maleita and Salgueiro, of 1934 and 1935, to the writing of A Luz no subsolo, his third novel, launched in 1936. The crucial point of this research was to propose a revision of these three first writer’s novels and point them out as motor power of Lúcio Cardoso’s great fictional laboratory. This way, it was proposed to accentuate the work of constant experimentation with a language that had its peak in Crônica da casa assassinada, author’s masterpiece, written in 1956. In this fictional laboratory hypothesis in process we seeked to bring out the remarkable presence of regionalism in the two first Lúcio’s narrations and the break of this literary line from A Luz no subsolo.