Abstract
The study is foccused on the motif of house as a main space motif in literature trying to show the transformation of this traditional motif in the postmodern European literature, primarily in two Italian novels (Alessandro Baricco's Oceano mare and Antonio Tabucchi's Notturno indiano) and one Portuguese novel (Lídia Jorge's O Jardim sem Limites). Italian novels are analyzed here through the space motif of a hotel as a new form of the house and it is being asscoiated with another basic elements of the narrative text such as the time and the fugures and its interaction with the space.
Portuguese novel focus on difference between two floors of a rented house representing two generations in Portugal.