O mundo clássico nas Vidas Apócrifas de Amadeu Lopes Sabino: alguns paralelos imaginados

Abstract

The book Vidas Apócrifas, by Amadeu Lopes Sabino, comprises five novels which, in common, describe the tragic destiny of characters who, confronted with the search for a meaning for their multiple lives, are protagonists in more or less fabulous adventures taking place in distant and sometimes exotic countries. In the novels O Silêncio and A Sibila de Badajoz, the scenarios of war set the tone of these adventures, which evokes elements of classical culture to compound them and compare them. Furthermore, in Os tesouros de Alexandre, a kind of postscript, the life of Alexander, whose biography is told in Parallel Lives, by Plutarch (to whom the narrator owes the leitmotif that links the various Vidas Apócrifas), is joining the common lives of the characters of these novels. Therefore, the purpose of this text is to point out some imagined parallels between the classical and contemporary worlds in these first two novels.