Abstract
Daniel Faria is one of the most impressive Portuguese poets of the late twentieth century. He was born in 1971 and deceased at the age of 28, in 1999 – he was then a novice at the Benedictine Monastery of Singeverga. As a mystic poet, his Work – particularly his last three books: Explicação das árvores e de outros animais [1998], Homens que são como lugares mal situados [1998] e Dos líquidos [2000] – discloses a fascinating dialogue between body and death, and thus revealing a rare tension between immanence and transcendence. But if death is a system in the poetry of Daniel Faria, the body is a generative gram-mar, a connective semantics, the circulatory system of its syntax. Therefore, the body (corporeality), embodied in such a mystical poetry, reveals a diffuse body, an unwieldy body, which interacts with reality at the limits of difficult indulgences. An existing body that, for that reason, condemns, but in an intimate dialogue with death is still, by the means of existence itself, a possibility of salvation.
Translated title of the contribution | Business of dying: body and death in the poetry of Daniel Faria- a triptych for the unfolding of immolation |
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Original language | Portuguese |
Pages (from-to) | 12-48 |
Number of pages | 37 |
Journal | Teoliterária |
Volume | 9 |
Issue number | 17 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Keywords
- Daniel Faria
- Contemporary Portuguese poetry
- Theology and literature