Portugal and the generation of apathy: analysis of the work The garden without limits, by Lídia Jorge

This study carries out a historical-literary journey of the generation that succeeded Salazarism and its reflexes in Portugal from the analysis of the work O jardim sem limits (1995), by Portuguese author Lídia Jorge. The novel shows us characters displaced in their country, for not identifying themselves with this place whose recent past they ignore. Thus, we have the listless children of Salazarism and colonial war, alienated from the political and social context of which they are a part. In our study, we are mainly based on concepts formulated from historical, post-colonial and philosophical criticism. Thus, we have paused in the writings of Portuguese thinkers like Teixeira de Pascoaes, Eduardo Lourenço and José Gil, of philosophers like Deleuze and other contemporary scholars like Hobsbaw, Hall and Lipovetsky.