Fernando Namora - Autoscopia e pena-estetoscópio

Abstract

In this essay, Fernando Namora´s medical activity is seen as a source of literary material. From that, the writer absorbs the experiences of both the sick people and the doctor himself, who tends, cathartically, to confession and autoscopy. Discussing the vast work of the novelist, the text presents the ways in which the author of Retalhos da Vida de um Médico expresses life, always from the confrontation with the world, as well as the constant dialogues of the intellectual with his time, which would, in large part, catalyze the evolution of contemporary Portuguese fiction.