ABSTRACT:
José Saramago's novel "A Caverna", which has the shopping-mall as its central symbol, is placed in relation to its author's critique of globalisation and Walter Benjamin's dialectic of utopia vs. commodification in "The Arcades Project".
Text originally given as conference paper at:
"Globalization and Nationalisms", Second International Conference on Postcolonial Studies, University of Vigo, Galicia, Spain, October 2001
