Can a Literature Greater?

Abstract

With this title, I refer to the text by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (1977), Kafka: for a minor literature, alluding to two movements that were suggested to me in the paths trodden by Portugueseness: a first movement talks about the association of the Portuguese literary space to peripheral literary spaces, despite their ancient history, from maritime expansion to colonization, bring you closer to the hegemonic centers; a second movement speaks of the complicity of a principle of reality and rationalism present in contemporary literary criticism of supposedly universal knowledge production models, which come, however, from hegemonic nations in the economic and cultural order.