Vergílio Ferreira: The Hen

21 Novembro 2017, 10:00 • Helena Carvalhão Buescu

Vergílio Ferreira as an existentialist and neorealist writer: the (lack of) meaning of life and the specificities of Portuguese history in the 1970s."The Hen" as a short nonsense story divided in five parts whose development follows a crescendo of violence (from a domestic to a nationwide scale), despite its apparently comic starting point (value of irony). Loss of the sense of community and the banality of evil (Hannah Arendt).

The irrationality, unsolvability and pointlessness of conflict as a representation for the absurdity of life in general and of the Portuguese Colonial War (1961-1974) in particular.

Oral presentations: Antonio Bolognini, Laura Campos, Niko Setar and Inga Podstawka.