Reflexos do espaço de exílio ovidiano no Livro do Desassossego

Abstract

It’s not in the work of Ovid that one can see the first manifestations of the so called Literature of Exile, because the Odyssey, for instance, shows us some evidences, but it is surely this author who finally establishes it as literary code; and, in order to achieve that status, the spatial component assumes an extremely important role. This idea is very clear in Ovid’s work, but it can also be found in several other authors, since ancient to modern times, that somehow wrote about exile, as for instance in Bernardo Soares’ Book of Disquietment. Although situated in another kind of exile, Soares shares many topoi with Ovid, particularly in what concerns the space, with all the semantic implications that this word has.