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ABSTRACT<br />
This study analyzes Vergílio Ferreira’s fifteen novels from Mudança (1949) to Cartas a Sandra<br />
(1996). The main emphasis is on Para Sempre – topic of the second part of our study – that<br />
presents a structure of synthesis or of novel summary. It brings together all the great topics,<br />
motives, symbols and basic elements to the construction of a fictional and symbolic universe raised<br />
by the writer on the basis of artistic language. Besides completing everything built in the preceding<br />
novels that formed cycles by linking themes, research meaning, philosophical and aesthetic<br />
problems, Para Sempre can be seen as a literary work in which the novel, the essay and the writer’s<br />
diary are interlinked. The study tried to analyze all these different aspects in Vergilian’s writings<br />
and their intense dialogue maintained throughout his work. The dialogue that is kept within<br />
literature and other arts – particularly painting, music, cinema and photography – and establishes<br />
frequent themes in Vergilian’s work was also accentuated. The novel grows as the “place” where it<br />
is possible to synthesize his thought about Art in all its forms of expression and this points to an<br />
intersemiotic dialogue. By reading and observing the sequence of his work the analytical and<br />
interpretative path seen along his novels is one of search for meaning. All done from a hermeneutic<br />
perspective that does not despise the subsidiary elements that may bring light to knowledge and<br />
understanding from the universe studied. Therefore, readings from the essays and the writer’s diary<br />
were relevant to the objectives and conclusions of this analysis. These readings, particularly<br />
readings from the writer’s diary exposed the view of genetic criticism. Despite his later works, this<br />
study proves our initial hypothesis: Para Sempre represents “the last frontier from Vergilian’s<br />
fictional territory.” With no thematic repetition, his later works do not form a new cycle. In Cartas<br />
a Sandra, the last of them, the writer returns to the “frontier” represented in Para Sempre to close<br />
the cycle of work and life.<br />
Key words: 20 th century portuguese novel; Vergilian’s writings; intersemiotic dialogue.
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