Contemporary Portuguese Poetry: the past and the reconstruction of present: a study of the memory in the poetics of Luís Quintais.
Poetry; memory; trauma; Luís Quintais.
This study titled Contemporary Portuguese Poetry: the past and the reconstruction of present: a study of the memory in the poetics of Luís Quintais has the general objective to analyze the relationship that poetry of the Portuguese poet Luís Quintais establishes with the memory. We seek to investigate the memory, particularly traumatic memory, relates to the creative process of this author, looking, also, how your career as an anthropologist influences the production of meaning of its verses. Therefore, we use the theoretical support of Halbwachs (2006), Bosi (1979) and Gagnebin (2006). With specific regard to the traumatic memory, we reflect about the shock of everyday reality in which modern man constantly on alert, front to situations of imminent danger, preventing it from accumulating experiences. We also investigate about the traumatic memory due to the war events regarding the difficulty of symbolization of such facts. It was used for both the reflections of Benjamin (1989), Seligmann-Silva (2003; 2005) and Vecchi (2010; 2012). Using the notes of those theorists treat the traumatic memory and testimony, analyzing its importance for the understanding of traumatic events and contemporary reality. We seek to reflect also on the relationship between memory, literature and language, in order to understand how these three elements are combined in the process of revisitation and understanding of the past, where we base our reflections in Torrano's notes (1992), Foucault (2005), Nancy ( 2005) and Gagnebin (2006).