TY - BOOK AU - Maria de Fátima Marinho PY - 2021 CY - , Germany PB - Meidenbauer TI - History and Myth T2 - The Presence of National Myths in Portuguese Literature UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1105745 N2 - In the first part theoretical questions on the fictionalisation of reality are discussed. In the second part, the author studies national myths, from the importance they can have in regard to the general opinion held of the other to the way in which the literary text has modified national History. In the third and fourth parts novels by José Saramago and Lídia Jorge are analysed. KW - Castro, Eugénio de, Castro, Inês de, fiction, historical novel, history, Jorge, Lídia, myth, Saramago, José, national myth LA - English ER -