Where Do Cats Go When They Die? Continuity And Rupture Within Luís Cardoso’s Novel.

Abstract

Luís Cardoso's recent novel, Where do cats go when they die? is part of a sequence of narratives that create a literary mosaic of special value for the panorama of Portuguese literature and, particularly, for East literature written in language Portuguese.This exercise aims to analyze the production of the Timorese author, basing the interpretation of the work in the native cultural codes and, also, in the articulation with the globality of the written universe created by Cardoso. In this sense, it is assumed as a key for structuring the analysis, a reflection around the continuity and rupture that this novel by Cardoso allows.