Maria da Penha Casado Alves

The non existent knight and the man without shadow

O Cavaleiro inexistente e o homem sem sombra – ou de quando não se vê a imagem no espelho

Published in Mirabilia 3 (2003)

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This text aims to analyze the character Agilulfo, Carlos Magno`s Knight who is presented in the other work O Cavaleiro Inexistente by Italo Calvino and Sebastian Caine, protagonist of the film Hollowman by Paul Verhoeven. This intersemiotics approach make a critical path which emphasizes relative questions about identity related to be or not be, human dilemmas that have wished the most different expressions in life and art.