Maria Gabriela Llansol Meets George Steiner: The Idea of Europe as a Llansolian Edenic Space

This article stresses how the first two and widely ignored books of the Portuguese Maria Gabriela Llansol, Pregos na Erva and Depois dos Pregos na Erva, are the primordial traces of Llansol’s Edenic Space. Furthermore, it is stated that this Llansolian concept ultimately meets the five key ideas that define Europe according to George Steiner’s latest book, The Ideia of Europe.