Mr. Tavares: a walk trough the neigborhood of Gonçalo M. Tavares

It is a critical consensus that one of the many tools of what we call literature is intertextuality. I’m using this concept in it’s broadest sense, including quotation, reference, parody, paraphrases: all different kinds of mechanisms that puts a text in contact whit another text. We propose, in the following article, to discuss if the way that the Portuguese writer Gonçalo Tavares deals with literature in the collection The Neighborhood puts us in front of a new form of approach to literary tradition and with a new form of critic. We also want to propose that the concept of intertextuality is amplified by his work.