He has translated Hipólito and Íon, and has published literary criticism in the reviews Journal of Hellenic Studies, Classical Quarterly, Euphrosyne, Humanitas, and Colóquio-Letras, as well as collaborating in the newspapers Independente, Expresso, and Público. A member of the corpo docente of the Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa from 1990 to 2009, he then became a member of the corpo docente of the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra. Born in Lisbon in 1963, Lourenço spent his childhood in Oxford. Lourenço's translation of Homer's Odyssey has been acclaimed by specialists and critics. Each of the 30 moral types is accompanied by a humorous illustration, or caricature. These brief essays are patterned after The Characters, attributed to Theophrastus (ca. colophon, 1 blank l.), 30 full-page illustrations in text. This highlights the importance of this novel as a space of confrontation between religious violence against desire, and the openness to the experience of desire and love that leads the protagonists through the “valley of shadow of death”.Lisbon, Cotovia, 2007. Using methods of literary analysis and discourse analysis, glancing at theology, we present the story of the novel, the force of ecclesiastical repression and the imposition/internalization of dogma. Its plot takes place in a Catholic seminary featuring the love between two seminarians. This paper seeks to question about the status of homoaffective desire on 20th century religious novels through the analysis of Em nome do desejo, by João Silvério Trevisan.
In this sense, the homoaffective theme in Portuguese literature is still uncommon, but it has a centennial history. On the other hand, the modern literature that deals with these affective sensitivities has opened a new space beyond the sacred literature of Christianity, becoming a way of understanding the relationship between repressive religion and the expression of the freedoms of minorities, observed within the context of the social struggles waged in the democratic West.
Homosexual desire, according to a conservative reading, would be unnatural and therefore subject to condemnation, cure or repression.
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