La poétique du labyrinthe dans As Terras do Risco

Abstract

In this Agustina Bessa-Luís’novel, As Terras do Risco, the labyrinths in which the characters venture are as much the comings and goings of human and loving relationships as the space where they are made and unmade: the convent and the Serra de Arrábida which conceals mysterious caves and underground passages covered by dense and dark scrub. Reinforcing this main theme, the structure of the story is also part of a labyrinthine dynamic: textual fragments, analepses, repetitions, digressions, ellipses, figures of the double, parodic intertextuality, instability of chronological data push the reader to weave Ariadne’s thread to reach the exit of the labyrinth, perhaps of its own labyrinth.