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Neste trabalho, estudam-se dois romances cujo assunto principal é a crise económica iniciada em 2008 e reveladores das consequências sociais e emocionais desta crise. Em A instalação do medo, esta emoção vence a protagonista; em Índice médio de felicidade a esperança e o altruísmo permitem uma pequena revolução. São, deste modo, exemplos de como a crise afectou a arte e ilustram um processo, ainda em curso, de transformação da literatura portuguesa.

The main purpose of this paper is to present a collection of Iberian manuscripts from the Jagiellonian Library in Krakow, very little known in the field of the Ibero-Romance philological studies. The article focusses on some Portuguese manuscripts in the context of the reception of Portuguese literature and history in Central Europe, in the 18th and 19th centuries. O objetivo principal do artigo consiste em apresentar brevemente uma coleção de manuscritos ibéricos do acervo da Biblioteca Universitária Jaguelónica de Cracóvia. Trata-se de uma coleção quase desconhecida no âmbito dos estudos filológicos ibero-românicos. O texto foca alguns manuscritos portugueses deste conjunto, no contexto da receção da literatura e história portuguesas na Europa Central, nos séculos XVIII e XIX.

Camoenian Intertextuality in "...Onde Vaz, Luis?" (1980) by Jaime Gralheiro or Luis Vaz de Camoes Revisited in the Contemporary Portuguese Theater The objective of the article is a comparison between Os Lusiadas/The Lusiads (1572) by Luis Vaz de Camoes and ...Onde Vaz, Luis (1983) by Jaime Gralheiro, showing the processes of narrative incorporation of an epic pattern into the dramatic hypertext, made through a “mosaic of quotations”. The discussion attends to the generic transformation, a very productive one in terms of aesthetics and ideology, with visible traits of parody, disguise, pastiche, narrative transposition of more than one unique text but many of them by various Portuguese authors of the 16th century (including Fernao Mendes Pinto, Antonio Ferreira, Pedro de Andrade Caminha, Damiao de Gois, Gil Vicente) ment for a jocular dramatic piece, both tragic and grotesque, conceived out of social criticism and according to a Brechtean ideological character. The article shows a sample of multiple relations between the primary hypotext and the texts derivated out of it, confirming the present paper’s aim in many works of Portuguese literature writers, of prose and theater writings. The heroic hypotext vs. the hypertexts are unfolded in dramatic and novelesque post-modern refabulations (Jose Saramago included!). Another study of the imaginary makes the realm of revisiting the Portuguese literature is possible in relation to contemporary history and human existence, with space-and-time frontiers and literary genres extinguished in the “intertextual lottery” of Camoes and his metamorfoses with regard to fictional authors and protagonists. A diagnosis of hic et nunc (just now!) is being produced in a methodologically consistent way according to the classics of intertextuality focused on dramatic and romanesque writings in Portugal in the decline of the former century. The Carnations’ Revolution in the background and the revolutionary democratic aftermath accompanying the undertaken analytic process.

Four Things Found: Spatial Analysis of the House in the Novel "Para Sempre" by Vergilio Ferreira The article presents the spatial analysis of the house in the novel Forever (Para Sempre, 1983) by Vergilio Ferreira, one of the greatest existentialist writers in Portuguese literature. Paulo, the self-digetic narrator, is returning to the yellow house, to the house of his childhood. It is the definitive return that begins the last phase of his life, the time it lacks until death. Wandering around the house, running down corridors, up and down stairs, entering each room, finds a stopped time, reveals his past again and thinks about his future and his dreams. There are also four symbol-things, the violin, the straw hat, the clock, and the angel figurine, that work as keys. With the support of Gaston Bachelard’s philosophical work Poetics of Space (La poetique de l’espace, 1957), it is discovered that the yellow house represents the life of Paul.

THE STRANGE CASE OF THE DETECTIVE NOVEL IN PORTUGUESE‑SPEAKING LITERATURE Today the detective novel has freed itself for good from being considered as marginal literature. It is now built around three sub genres: The whodunit novel, the gritty thriller, and the suspense novel whose frontiers have progressively become more and more blurred as the authors juggle with the rules of each subgenre, melting them in a literary genre they now refuse to dissociate from the main novelistic production. The Portuguese‑speaking detective stories have followed the same evolution. We have chosen to comment upon three Portuguese speaking novels: One by Pepeleta from Angola, the second by Rubem Fonseca from Brazil and the third by Ana Teresa Pereira from Portugal, each one of them representing one of the subgenres of detective literature, so as to find out if they have common specificities peculiar to the Portuguese speaking detective stories.