Multiplicity of perspectives: horror to the war, irony and metaction in A Costa dos Murmúrios

Abstract

The aim of this essay is to point out how Lídia Jorge represents on A Costa dos Murmúrios (1988) a demolishing perspective of the masculine belligerent domain. The feminine glance that overflows the work makes visible the horror towards war; a war situated in a masculine universe. For this reason, we contemplate a deconstructive vision of the mythic image of war that history shows. Eva Lopo, the emergent character of the second and clarifying part of the novel, questions (twenty years after the initial telling) in a tragic and ironic mode the significance of war.
This Lídia Jorge’s novel presents, in a first line, the urban environment of Beira, from the Stella Maris Hotel, away from the war conflict in the north of Mozambique. The conflict, that appears in a second place, is the real line that drives to the tragic end.