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Los "Crueles": Pedro I de Castilla frente a Pedro I de Portugal en "Adivinhas de Pedro e Inês" (1983) de Agustina Bessa-Luís

2019; University of Navarre; Volume: 22; Linguagem: Inglês

10.15581/001.22.029

2254-6367

Ana Rita Gonçalves Soares,

Medieval Iberian Studies

Adivinhas de Pedro e Inês (1983) by Agustina Bessa-Luís exposes the History of late medieval Iberia ―and, in particular, the one of the lovers Pedro and Inês de Castro― as a multiple and confused net of partial and contradictory versions. Seeking to demonstrate a (possible) truth as a response to a serie of «riddles» (adivinhas), the narrative re-elaborates – suppresses, adapts, changes, defamiliarizes – the historical referents. Focusing on the representation of the kings known as «the cruels» (Peter I of Castile and Peter I of Portugal) this article analyses how the narrator’s odd and committed perspective combines the ironic, critical and playful purpose of postmodern historic metafiction with the formal features of the «new historiography».