JOSÉ RÉGIO ET LA PENSÉE DU MODERNISME RADICAL
JOSÉ RÉGIO AND THE THOUGHT OF RADICAL MODERNISM

Summary/Abstract: José Régio is the most original Portuguese novelist of the first part of the 20th century. His most important novel, Jogo da cabra cega (The blind man’s throw game), evokes and summarizes the crisis of artistic modernity in the first half of the 20th century. The Portuguese author uses fiction as an instrument of knowledge in his novel Jogo da cabra cega.The novelist has created a story about the individual, where the mystery of existence is encircled, chased away, dissolved, clouded and never decoded. Finally, the mystery, pressing, but impossible to reach, can only be synonymous with the dark interiority of the being, the labyrinth from which the monster seems to have started or to have taken on an unidentifiable aspect. The narrative scheme, banal and apparently easily accessible, becomes allegoric. The theatrical romance receives an allegorical projection that lacks meaning, although every line of the text appears to be significant. The attempt at rationalization and lucid encirclement of the mystery denies narrative discourse the expression of a pressing latency: a new order of the real, perhaps fantastic.

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