HOW MANY LIVES DOES HAVE CAMOES? RASURANT SURVIVALS AND REPRESENTATIONS OF HOMOEROTIC LOVE IN THE FICTION OF FREDERICO LOURENCO

This article proposes a reading of the short story by Frederico Lourenco - fiction writer, translator, researcher and professor at the University of Coimbra -, "O retrato de Camoes" (2005, from A formosa pintura do mundo). In this text, Camoes is revisited and gains short-lived survivals, insofar as it becomes a fundamental axis for a careful reflection on forms of love that are not consistent with heteronormative norms, due of a present homoeroticism, now explicit, now subtle. It is intended to question how the Camonian character, in his shifts from the condition of myth to a human condition, as emphasized by Eduardo Lourenco (1999), contributes to thinking about the multiple possibilities of being in the world of 21st century Portuguese man from another love experience, which dares to say its name.