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In this chapter, I want to analyse the expression ‘regency apocalypse’ (apocalipsis regno) used by Saramago in an interview in the year 2005. To explore this counterintuitive concept, as several of the political concepts employed by the Portuguese writer, I will try to expose in a few lines his thoughts on democracy together with the notion of capitalism as catastrophe as found in such apocalyptic critics of capitalism as Marc Fisher. I take as my starting point what, for Saramago, were the “telling signs of the relations between states and economic groups whose criminal and even warlike acts are leading our planet to catastrophe.” The notion of catastrophe is fundamental in Saramago and it seems to be at the root of his radical questioning of utopia.
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Tiburi, M. (2023). Utopia/Dystopia: José Saramago and the Regency Apocalypse. In: Baltrusch, B., Salzani, C., Vanhoutte, K. (eds) A Responsibility to the World: Saramago, Politics, Philosophy. iBroLiT – Estudos Iberorrománicos de Literatura e Tradutoloxía. Ibero-Romance Studies in Literature and Translatology, vol 9. Frank & Timme, Berlin. https://doi.org/10.57088/978-3-7329-8985-0_2
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