abstract
In this essay, we analyze how characters are depicted and examine why, when and how the gestures of insubordination of reviser Raimundo Benvindo Silva occur. He is a simple man raised as protagonist of a story about History. Converging into an interdisciplinary interpretation, this article discusses boundaries between fictional and historiographic discourses based on assumptions of History Theory and Literary Criticism.
keywords:
Literature; History; José Saramago