Maria Gabriela Llansol

Maria Gabriela Llansol: 30 years since O Livro das Comunidades 

The Portuguese Section of the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies at the University of Liverpool invites scholars and legentes (readers) to submit abstracts for the one-day Symposium to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the first edition of unique writer Maria Gabriela Llansol's great work O Livro das Comunidades (1977). This book, the first in the Geografia dos Rebeldes trilogy, sets out Llansol's philosophical and literary project for the future and paves the way for her following works.

For the Symposium, we especially invite abstracts for papers, literary, philosophical or interdisciplinary, that address (but are not limited to) the following issues:

• How far can O Livro das Comunidades be taken as a watershed in Llansol's work, influencing the way we read her other texts?
• How could a re-reading of O Livro das Comunidades, 30 years since its publication, pave the way for unexpected encounters between literature and other artistic fields (such as music, film, art, architecture, theology)?
• How could one relate, cross or interweave other authors (who may or may not be the Llansolian figures of Musil, Kafka, Nietzsche, San Juan de la Cruz, Hadewijch, etc.) in the light of O Livro das Comunidades?
• How has Llansol's work been received, before and after 1977;
• Can Llansol's writing be translated out of Portuguese and into other languages?

Papers may be presented in English or Portuguese and must not exceed 20 minutes. Proposals may be individual or collective. Please submit an abstract of approx. 300 words and full contact details (including e-mail). We warmly encourage postgraduate submissions.
Please send proposals by no later than 1st April 2007 by e-mail to: Raquel Ribeiro (raquel.ribeiro@liverpool.ac.uk) or Claire Williams (cleliwil@liverpool.ac.uk)