Podcast
How do we read Camões today? Researchers Filipa Araújo and Hélio Alves debate new perspectives on the largest poet of the Portuguese language. Listen here the seventh episode of Podcast ‘Camões: 500 years of history and legend’
In the seventh episode of Podcast Camões: 500 years of history and legend, Filipa Araújo and Hélio Alves are the guests of a session dedicated to new perspectives on Camonian studies.
The researcher, from the Center for Camonian Studies of the University of Coimbra presents an analysis centered on the relationship between text and image in the work of Camões, highlighting the emblematic tradition, the baroque art and the illustrated editions of the Lusíadas.
He also stressed the pioneering role of women specialists in reading and disseminating the Camonian work, pointing to the need for a more systematic feminist reading.
Professor Hélio Alves, from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, proposes a critical reflection on “Camonian exceptionalism”, advocating the importance of situating Camões in its literary and cultural context.
Alves argues that the poet’s canonization resulted in part of a historical process that erased other authors, whose works were actively devalued. The researcher advocates a less exclusive and more dialogical reading of the Camonian work, proposing the concept of “Camões as Synindoque” – a part that has occupied the whole of Portuguese literature.
The debate, moderated by Isabel Almeida, culminated in a public question session that brought up topics such as the feminist reading of Camões, the representation of female figures in the illustrated editions and ambiguity in the poet’s work.
The session ended with the recognition that, after 500 years of the birth of Camões, the study of his work continues to open new critical paths and raise fundamental questions about identity, memory and cultural representation.
Listen here the “Camões: 500 years of history and legend” podcast, recorded at the National Library of Portugal, under the celebrations of the V Centenary of the birth of Luís de Camões.
Five centuries after the birth of Luís de Camões, Expresso invites him to rediscover the greatest poet of the Portuguese language. Who was Camões anyway? A literary genius, a tireless adventurer or a mitigated figure over the centuries?
In this special podcast, recorded in, we hear a cycle of debates that explores life, work and mysteries that still involve the author of “Os Lusíadas”. A sound trip through the history and legend of one of the most fascinating figures of Lusophony.
Available from June 10 at Expresso and the main podcast platforms.
